Alexander Fridlender

Alexander Grigoryevitch Fridlender (Александр Григорьевич Фридлендер; 2/15 July 1906 – 13 September 1980) was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, Professor at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire.

Career
Fridlender was born in Saint Petersburg. He studied at the Leningrad Central Music College (1925–1929) and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1933. He then worked as the conductor of the Voronezh Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1934–1935, the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater (1936). After that he moved to Sverdlovsk. He spent the rest of his life there. Fridlender conducted the orchestra of the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic Hall (1939–1941, 1947–1974) and the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (1943–1947). He taught at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire. He composed several operas, instrumental music such as suites, music for plays, songs.

Selected compositions

 * 1941: The Mountain Fairy Tale (Горная сказка), a ballet based on "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain".
 * 1944: The Stone Flower, a ballet based on the story of the same name.
 * 1958: Without a Dowry (Бесприданница), a ballet based on the play of the same name.
 * 1962: Snow (Снег), a ballet
 * 1966: Zoya (Зоя), a choreographic poem
 * 1967: Petersburgers (Питерцы), an opera based on the poem by Olga Bergholz.
 * 1970: The Cake in the Sky (Торт в небе), a comedy opera based on the story by Gianni Rodari La torta in cielo.
 * 1977: Lieutenant Lermontov (Поручик Лермонтов), a choreographic poem