Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky conductor The legendary bassist and conductor Serge Koussevitzky was born in Russia in 1874 to a family of musicians. With his brothers, he formed a wind ensemble when still a child, peforming at local parties and social events. He journeyed to Moscow at the age of fourteen, winning a scholarship at the Musico-Dramatic Institute to study double bass and music theory. He excelled at the bass, joining the Bolshoi Theater orchestra at age twenty …

…critics, but audiences loved him, and under his direction the BSO became a virtuosic unit without peer on the American music scene. His recordings, while known primarily to collectors and devotees of the BSO, have served as the inspiration to legions of musicians who, in the end analysis, have realized that music is the art of direct and unfettered communication. Serge Koussevitzky died in Boston on June 4, 1951. Bibliography www.classicalmus.com bmg.classics@bmge.com