Information AboutIssay Dobrowen |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ISSAY DOBROWEN | |
| 1891 births | |
| 1953 deaths | |
| russian composers | |
| russian conductors | |
| russian pianists | |
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Relatively unknown today, he wrote some very beautiful piano music, reminiscent of Rachmaninoff . He is also known for playing Beethoven 's Sonata Appasionata to Lenin , whose favorite piece of music this was. He was also a close friend of Russian writer Maxim Gorky , and famed Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen . Dobrowen went on to conduct the San Francisco Symphony and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra . EXTERNAL LINKS
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