Gabrilowitsch, Ossip

Gabrilowitsch, Ossip

(ô`sĭp gäbrĭlô`vĭch), 1878–1936, Russian-American pianist and conductor; pupil of Anton Rubinstein at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and of Leschetizky. His debut was made in Berlin in 1896. He was well-known both as a brilliant pianist and as conductor of the Munich Konzertverein Orchestra, 1910–14, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 1918–36. He married Clara Clemens, concert singer, daughter of Mark Twain.

Gabrilowitsch, Ossip (Solomonovitch)

(1878–1936) pianist, conductor; born in St. Petersburg, Russia. After a solo career in Europe and America, he became conductor of the Detroit Symphony in 1918, but is mainly remembered as a matinee-idol pianist.