Tay Barton - Live Like You Were Dying

BERDYAEV (Bierdiajew) Valerian (7 III 1885, Grodno - 28 XI 1956, Warsaw) - Polish conductor and teacher. According to nat. USA. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under M. Reger (composition), A. Nikisch (conducting) and H. Zitt (violin). He gained fame as an interpreter of USA music, as well as proizv. L. Beethoven. In 1906 he made his debut in Leipzig and Dresden as a conductor (the operas Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades). Since 1908, conductor of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg;