{"id":14182,"date":"2024-07-29T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:02:11","slug":"classical-music-world-marks-conductor-serge-koussevitzkys-150th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/07\/29\/classical-music-world-marks-conductor-serge-koussevitzkys-150th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Music World Marks Conductor Serge Koussevitzky\u2019s 150th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14183\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/Serge-Koussevitzky-1.jpg\" alt=\"Serge Koussevitzky\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/Serge-Koussevitzky-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/Serge-Koussevitzky-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/Serge-Koussevitzky-1-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/Serge-Koussevitzky-1-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serge Koussevitzky (Photo: Historical Recordings, The Listeners&#8217; Club, Twentieth Century)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Russian-American conductor and composer Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) served as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the first half of the 20th century. He was born 150 years ago this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> On July 26th, the classical music world marked 150 years since the birth of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P0VSSZBSCUM?si=34LgzOuAIuDdMinw\">Serge Koussevitzky<\/a>. Koussevitzky served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924-1929, during which he shaped the BSO into the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1944\/07\/23\/88605637.html?zoom=15.780000000000001&amp;pageNumber=112\">most refined and sensitive orchestra<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In case you didn\u2019t know\u2026:<\/strong> Serge Koussevitzky was born into a Russian-Jewish family north of Moscow in 1874. He was an acclaimed double bassist before making his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1908.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being a conductor, Koussevitzky was also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/exhibits\/editions-russes-de-musique-a-support-to-composers\">publisher<\/a>, educator, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2VAY35eMHyU?si=qofSAZdGM7XDNE3n\">composer<\/a>. He founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/interlude.hk\/music-eyes-editions-russes-de-musique\/\">\u00c9ditions Russes de Musique<\/a> publishing firm in 1909, which published works by Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and Scriabin, among others. In 1924, Koussevitzky became director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he also presented and commissioned new works by Ravel, Copland, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Randall Thomson. He helped form the educational programs at the BSO\u2019s summer home, the Tanglewood Institute, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/bernstein.classical.org\/features\/koussevitzky-exclusive-2\/\">a great mentor to Leonard Bernstein<\/a>, who never conducted without wearing the cufflinks given to him by Koussevitzky. The maestro must\u2019ve had good taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian-American conductor and composer Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951) served as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":14183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,255],"tags":[449],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/07\/Serge-Koussevitzky-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}