Andre Kostelanetz

Genres:	Easy Listening, Instrumental
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1980s
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Biography

22 December 1901, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 13 January 1980, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A distinguished conductor, composer, arranger and pianist who was instrumental in bridging the divide between classical and popular music. The son of wealthy parents, Kostelanetz is said to have been able to play the piano by the age of five. While in his teens he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, and then served as an assistant conductor for the Imperial Grand Opera in Petrograd, before emigrating to the USA with his family in 1922.

In America he worked in various capacities for a number of opera companies, and in 1928 became a naturalized American. In the same year he began his association with the Atlantic Broadcasting System (later CBS) which resulted in an enormously popular series of radio programmes which lasted from the early 30s through to the 50s. As a conductor, arranger and musical advisor, Kostelanetz presented popular music in...

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