Altani, Ippolit (Karlovich)
Altani, Ippolit (Karlovich)
Altani, Ippolit (Karlovich), Russian conductor; b. Ukraine, May 27, 1846; d. Moscow, Feb. 17, 1919. He was a pupil of Zaremba and A. Rubinstein in St. Petersburg. After conducting in Kiev (1867–82), he was chief conductor of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater (1882–1906), where he conducted the premieres of Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa (1884) and Rachmaninoff’s Aleko (1893). He also conducted the Moscow premieres of many other notable works, including Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (1888), and Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (1891).
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