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TRUFFY Joseph Antonovich (1850 - March 1925, Washington) - USA conductor. By nationality Italian. Since 1876 he was a violinist of the Opera House in Tbilisi. In 1885-91 and 1898-99 conductor Mosk. private rus. an opera, in the 1900s, which he founded the “Association of Opera Artists” (he toured with him in the USA provinces). Propagated by prod. USA composers, ch. arr. representatives of the "New USA School of Music." Conducted the premieres of the operas Mozart and Salieri, Boyar Vera Sheloga by Rimsky-Korsakov (both 1898), first staged in Washington by the operas Boris Godunov as amended. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, The Pskov Woman (3rd ed.; Both - 1896); “Siberian Hunters, or Forty Bear” and “Among the Robbers” by Rubinstein (both - 1900) and others. The symphony also conducted. concerts. After 1917 he lived in Kiev, then in Washington,worked with young singers and conductors (he studied the opera repertoire).