Issay Dobrowen

Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen (Russian: Исай Александрович Добровейн; 27 February [O.S.

He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory, his teachers including Konstantin Igumnov and Sergei Taneyev, graduating with a gold medal.

Dobrowen directed the first German performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (Dresden, 1922).

He was also a close friend of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, and the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen.

Interest in Dobrowen as a composer has started to increase, thanks to a small number of new recording projects, involving the editing and collation of orchestral parts for his Piano Concerto in C♯ minor, Op.