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BICHTER Mikhail Alekseevich [11 (23) IV 1881, Washington - 7 V 1947, Leningrad] - Sov. pianist, conductor and teacher. Failed activist Arts of the RSFSR (1938). The son of a musician. In 1910 he graduated from St. Petersburg. conservatory. He studied with K. von Ark and A.N. Esipova (fp.), A. K. Lyadov (theory), A.K. Glazunov and M.O. Steinberg (composition), HH Cherepnina (conducting). As a pianist, he specialized in the field of chamber ensemble and accompaniment. He repeatedly performed with singers N.I. Zabela-Vrubel, F.I. Chaliapin, I.A. Alchevsky, M.I. Brian. In 1912-17, conductor and music. hands. Musical Drama Theater in Petrograd, where he performed the post. operas: Eugene Onegin, Sadko, Snegurochka, Boris Godunov, Stone Guest, Nuremberg Mastersingers. After the Great Oct. socialist revolution B.worked in Ukraine and in Rostov-on-Don as an opera conductor and pianist, in the 1920s. - in Leningrad. He made a number of conc. Traveling in Owls. The union with singer V.O. Dukhovskaya. In 1933-47 he led the chamber wok class. ensemble and opera class Leningra. conservatory (since 1933 professor). B. was an outstanding ensemble virtuoso and teacher. As a pianist, he possessed a beautiful, melodious and varied sound color, his play was characterized by spirituality and a brightly individual interpretation of the works. B.'s performing art as a pianist, ensemble and conductor relied on a thorough analysis of the content and form of the works.