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.
He then moved to the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, where he composed early Kirghiz operas and ballets. 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)
- 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)
References
- Shostakovich Studies 2 by Pauline Fairclough, page 47
- Jews in Soviet culture by Jack Miller, page 81
- Русско-английский словарь биологических терминов
- 1901 births
- 1989 deaths
- 20th-century classical pianists
- 20th-century composers
- 20th-century male pianists
- 20th-century Russian male musicians
- Musicians from Odesa
- Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory
- Moscow Conservatory alumni
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
- Russian male classical pianists
- Russian male opera composers
- Russian ballet composers
- Russian classical pianists
- Russian film score composers
- Russian music educators
- Russian opera composers
- Soviet classical pianists
- Soviet film score composers
- Soviet male composers
- Soviet music educators
- Soviet opera composers
- Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery