What is Albert Coates?
'''Albert Coates''' (born [[Saint Petersburg]], [[23 April]] [[1882]]; died [[Cape Town]], [[11 December]] [[1953]]) was an [[England|Anglo]]-[[Russia]]n [[conducting|conductor]] and [[composer]]. ==Life and work== Coates was born in [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]], the youngest of seven sons of an English father and a Russian mother. He studied at the [[conservatory]] in [[Leipzig]], where his greatest teacher was [[Arthur Nikisch]]. He worked at the opera house in [[Dresden]], and became conductor at Saint Petersburg's [[Mariinsky Theatre]]. After the [[Russian Revolution]] and [[World War I]] he just managed to escape from Russia in April [[1919]]. He first appeared at the [[Royal Opera House]], [[Covent Garden]] in 1914 conducting [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]''. He was a man with a lot of energy, and he introduced the audiences to a lot of music they had not heard, especially by Russian composers such as [[Alexander Scriabin]], but also English music by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], [[Arnold Bax]], and [[Gustav Holst]], whose suite ''[[The Planets]]'' he gave the first complete London public performance. In the 1920s and early 1930s he often worked with the [[London Symphony Orchestra]]. He made [[Gramophone record|gramophone]] recordings in the very early days of the gramophone. These include Scriabin's ''Poème de l'Extase'' and many bits from Wagner's ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'' and (in 1925) the complete ''[[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 9]]'' of [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]. He was the conductor for the first recording of [[Rachmaninoff]]'s Piano Concerto No. 3, with [[Vladimir Horowitz]] as soloist. In 1925 he gave the first stage performance outside Russia of [[Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s opera ''The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya''. He composed several works including operas and a symphonic poem ''The Eagle'', dedicated to the memory of his former teacher Artur Nikisch, which was performed in [[Leeds]] in 1925. In 1946 he settled