5 February] 1900 – 2 December 1962) was a Soviet conductor and pedagogue who conducted the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (МГАСО) after Lev Steinberg.
[2] He was the father of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, who adopted the maiden name of his mother, soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya[3] in its masculine form to avoid the appearance of nepotism when making his own career, and the painter P. N. Anosov.
Anosov was born in Borisoglebsk, then in the Tambov Governorate, today in the Voronezh Oblast, where his father was a manager at the Volga-Kama Bank, and Nikolai received music lessons at home.
During the Second World War, from 1941 to 1944 he was artistic director of the Front-line Opera VTO, during which time also, in 1943, he graduated in composition from the Moscow Conservatory as an external student.
In 1951 he was made a Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR,[5] published a textbook to reading symphonic music,[6] and was appointed a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.