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Andrei ArendsAndrei Fedorovich Arends (Андрей Федорович Арендс), also known as Heinrich Arends (Генрих Арендс), was a Russian conductor, violinist and composer of German extraction, born in Moscow on 2/14 April 1855. In 1877 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied violin with Ferdinand Laub, and composition with Tchaikovsky. In 1883 Arends became a violinist in the Bol'shoi Theatre Orchestra in Moscow, becoming chief conductor at the Malyi Theatre in Moscow in 1892, after being selected in a competition in which Tchaikovsky was one of the judges. He conducted the first performance in Moscow of The Sleeping Beauty in 1899, and served as chief conductor of the Bol'shoi Ballet Theatre in Moscow from 1900 until 1924. Andrei Arends died in Moscow on 27 April 1924, aged 69. |