Dobroven, Issay Aleksandrovich (1891-1953)

Russian conductor and composer. He studied with Taneiev and others at the Moscow Conservatory and later took a piano course with Godowsky in Vienna. He became professor at the Moscow Conservatory in 1917 and conductor of the Opera in 1919. Later he conducted Russian opera on tour in Germany and in 1927-28 he was conductor of the Bulgarian State Opera at Sofia. In the 1930s he conducted extensively in the USA and Palestine.

Works opera A Thousand and One Nights (first performed in Moscow in 1922); incidental music to Verhaeren's Philip II; piano concerto, violin concerto; sonata and Fairy Tales for violin and piano; sonatas, studies and pieces for piano; songs.