Lev Steinberg

Lev Petrovich Steinberg (ru: Штейнберг, Лев Петрович) (Yekaterinoslav 3 September 1870 – Moscow 16 January 1945), was an influential Russian conductor and composer.

In 1892, during the traditional summer symphony concerts in Druskininkai, Grodno province, he made his debut as a conductor.

He worked as a symphonic and opera conductor in theaters in Moscow (1902), Saratov (1903), Kharkov (1910-1913), Kiev (1911-1914) and other cities.

In 1928-1941 and 1943-1945 - conductor of the Bolshoi Theater and artistic director of the symphony orchestra of the Central House of the Red Army .

In 1943 he headed and created the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic, which he directed until the end of his life.