Issay Dobrowen

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Issay Dobrowen, (born Itschok Zorachovitch Barabeitchik on 15 February 1891 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, died 1953 in Oslo, Norway) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor.

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

• [Biography in Russian]
• [Biography from Simax]

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