Boris Gutnikov
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Boris Lvovich Gutnikov (Russian: Борис Львович Гу́тников) (4 July 1931 in Vitebsk – 6 April 1986 in Leningrad) was a Soviet violinist, born in the Byelorussian SSR.
He won the 1957 Long-Thibaud Competition and, most notably, the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition. He had been appointed a teacher at the Leningrad Conservatory soon before.
Andrei Petrov composed in 1987 his Memoria for violin and ensemble in memoriam Gutnikov.
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194345/http://www.vor.ru/English/tales/tales_018.html Voice of Russia - Musical tales of St. Petersburg]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080105183106/http://www.concours-long-thibaud.org/long/laureats/index.php?annee=1957 Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud - 1957 Palmares]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081211080209/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/petrov.htm Onno van Rijen's Soviet Composers webpage]
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