Belarus: persons and events (Mark Shneiderman)

Mark Shneiderman was born on March 16, 1898 in Zhitomir. In 1930 Mark Shneiderman graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1935 he returned to Belarus, where his family was from. In 1935-1947 he worked as a conductor of the Belarusian Opera and Ballet Theater, taught at the Minsk Conservatory, and in 1947-1957 he was the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Belarusian Philharmonic Society.

Shneiderman first appeared on the stage of the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in the year of his graduation from the Conservatory - on March 21, 1930, where he conducted the orchestra in a concert by the virtuoso balalaika player Nikolai Osipov. Before leaving for Minsk, Schneiderman will give 15 more concerts with the Philharmonic Orchestra (he will also perform several times as concert pianist), with soloists including pianists Nadezhda Golubovskaya, Isai Renzin, Grigory Buze and Mikhail Druskin, cellist Grigory Pekker, Croatian violinist Zlatko Balakovich and soloists from the Kirov (Mariinsky) Theatre.

Shneiderman's symphony programs (more often in private and targeted concerts) include symphonies by Beethoven (No. 5), Tchaikovsky (No. 4), Borodin (No. 2), Schubert («Unfinished»), works by Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Mussorgsky and Rachmaninoff. He performed a lot of music by Soviet composers: Zhitomirsky, Aleksandrov, Brusilovsky, Polovinkin, Pashchenko, Dzerzhinsky.

Mark Shneiderman is the author of music for children, pieces for piano and orchestra, pieces for orchestra of Belarusian folk instruments, ballads, romances, arrangements of Belarusian folk songs and others. Honored Art Worker of the BSSR (1940).

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