Igor Oistrakh died

In Moscow, at the age of 90, the violinist, conductor and teacher Igor Oistrakh died.

According to TASS with reference to the David Oistrakh charity foundation, the musician died on August 14 after a long illness.

Igor Davidovich Oistrakh was born in 1931 in Odessa in the family of violinist David Ostrakh and Pianists Tamara Rotareva, played on the violin, from eight years old - on the piano. In 1947, he first made a concert, in 1949 and 1952 he won at violin competitions in Budapest and Poznan.

In 1949, he graduated with honors from the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory, in 1955 he graduated from the conservatory in the violin class led by his father, in 1958 - graduate school. In the same year he became the soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic.

He performed in the USSR and beyond - in Austria, Great Britain, GDR, Denmark, USA, Czechoslovakia, Japan and other countries. Until the death of his father in 1974, he played in the orchestra under his control, as well as in a duet. He collaborated with the violinist Yehudi Menukhin and the leading orchestras of the world. In 1968, he first stood behind the conductor's remote control, since then he often acted as a conductor.

Since 1965 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory, in 1996-2010 - at the Brussels Conservatory.

People's Artist of the USSR (1989).