<div id="LayerE10" class="Black_Text" style="visibility: visible; overflow: visible; width:500px; z-index:0; left:0px; top:0px; position:absolute; "> <div align="center" name="textnamecont" id="textnamecont" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:100%; left:0px; top:2px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:12;"> <div name="imagename" id="imagename" style="background-color:#eeeeee; color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-family:arial; font-size : 10pt; text-align:center; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; height:18px; z-index:10; overflow:inherit;"> Issay Dobrowan </div> </div> <br> <div align="left" name="infodisplayscroll" id="infodisplayscroll" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; left:20px; top:6px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:10;"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#000000" border="0" width="460"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top"> <div align="center"></div> <div align="center"> <div align="left"><span class="Black_SubHead"> </span><span class="DarkRed_SubHead">Issay Dobrowen (1891–1953) </span><br /> <br /> </div><span class="Black_SubHead"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span></div> <div><strong><img height="160" width="160" src="/EZ/hr/hr/imagelibrary/dobrowen.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> </strong></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">Issay Dobrowen (1891–1953) was a Russian-born conductor, born Itschok Zorachovitch Barabeitchik. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">As a young man, he played Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata to Lenin, whose favorite piece of music this was. He left the Soviet Union in 1923, becoming a Norwegian citizen in 1929. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">He conducted orchestras in Oslo, Budapest, San Francisco, and Gothenburg, as well as making a number of outstanding recordings, mostly for HMV after the Second World War, including the first LP version of "Boris Godunov".</span><br /> <br /> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><br></div>
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