Mikhail Chulaki

Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki ( in Simferopol – January 29, 1989 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian composer and teacher. Three Stalin Prizes second degree (1947, 1948, 1950). Biography He studied under the composer Vladimir Shcherbachov at the Leningrad Conservatory, graduating in 1931. He held administrative and teaching positions, including at the Leningrad Conservatory (1933–1941, 1944–1948), and taught composition at the Moscow Conservatory (from 1948): While in that post, he gave Rostropovich his first major break as a conductor, inviting him to conduct Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

His son was the writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Chulaki.

Notes and references

Ho, Allan & Feofanov, Dmitry. Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Wilson, Elizabeth. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered. London: Faber & Faber, 2006. Wilson, Elizabeth. Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend. London: Faber & Faber, 2007.