Abram Leontievich Markson was a Russian and Soviet violinist and conductor.

Biography

Was born in a family of dealers in Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...

. Has finished Tomsk musical school at Jacob Medlina and two courses of the Petersburg conservatory (family circumstances have prevented to graduate). With 1912 actively gave concerts in Krasnoyarsk as the violinist, having in repertoire masterly products Sarasate Pablo, Venjavsky, K. Sen-Sans, and with 1914 supervised over an orchestra of city theatre. In 1919 Kolchak has been mobilised in, served as the conductor of an orchestra of 31st Siberian shooting regiment of 8th Siberian shooting division.
Since 1920 pedagogical activity of Markson in «National conservatory», then in musical technical school begins. Simultaneously it continued concert activity in Krasnoyarsk and other cities of Siberia as the soloist and as a part of chamber ensembles. One of the first symphonic orchestras popular in public in Russia beyond Ural Mountains in 1920th years-was an orchestra under control of A.L. Markson who gave concerts on gardens open-air stage, recreation centres and city theatre. The orchestra under control of Markson had been executed in popular performances of an opera Traviata, "Rigoletto", "Faust", "Mermaid

Mermaid

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", "Evgenie Onegin" and others, not established while documentary. The means obtained from concerts went to various funds: Krasnyj the Cross, "Dirizhablestroenie", «Our answer of Chemberlen», «the Help to homeless children», Zapovednik "Columns", «the Help Artist| burnt down Irkutsk

Irkutsk

Irkutsk is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: .-History:In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov...

 , "For the aid to proletariat of Japan». Together with Slovtsov

Pyotr Slovtsov

Pyotr Ivanovich Slovtsov was a famous Russian tenor.-Early years:Slovtsov was born in the village of Ustyanskoye in Yeniseysk Governorate of the Russian Empire, to the family of a deacon. His father died when the boy was five, and the mother re-located with Pyotr to Krasnoyarsk. According to...

, and the chorus master W. V.Abajantsevym, Markson was the founder in 1928 at a philharmonic society «Music to weights"."Any musical action of a city did not do without Abram Leontevicha's participation and its orchestras
A.L. Markson has brought up known violinists in Krasnoyarsk: Anatoly Arapov, Vadim and Nikolay Bujanov, Stanislav Pudul and Gennady Nazarov.

Sentencing and rehabilitation

In February, 1938 nine musicians of an orchestra have been accused of White Guard plot and arrested. On February, 21st, 1938 Abram Markson after arrest has been condemned six days NKVD

NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....

 under 58th article and sentenced to a supreme penalty (execution). The sentence is carried out on February, 26th 1938 in Krasnoyarsk. As a result of reprisals concerning musicians translation of musical programs for some time in Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...

an Radio committee has stopped.
A.L. Markson is rehabilitated on May, 15th, 1956 by the military court of the Siberian military district in the absence of crime structure.

Sources

E.V. Prigun. Formation and development of music education in Krasnoyarsk from its origins to the early XX century: ... Doctor of Arts Thesis. - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk State Conservatory (Academy) Glinka, 2008. (Chapter IV. Music and art life and music education in Krasnoyarsk in the period from 1895 to the early XX century)]M. G. Volkova. Requiem for a spiritual gene pool