Mikhail Raukhverger

Mikhail Rafailovich Raukhverger (Russian: Михаил Рафаилович Раухвергер; 5 December 1901 – 18 October 1989) was a Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and pedagogue.

Career

Mikhail Raukhverger was born in Odesa. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Felix Blumenfeld in 1927 and in 1929–1941 taught there.^[1]

He then moved to the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, where he composed early Kirghiz operas and ballets.^[2] He composed several operas and ballets, a symphony and a symphonic suite, a cello concerto, three string quartets, piano pieces, more than four hundred choral works and songs as well as drama and film scores.

He died in Moscow in 1989, aged 87.

Awards and honors

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1958)
• People's Artist of the Kirghiz SSR (1961)^[3]
• Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1974)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1983)
• Order of the Red Star

Film scores

• The Lonely White Sail (1937)
• For the Power of the Soviets (1956)
• Morning Star (1959)