13 Facts About Ivan Mozgovenko

Ivan Panteleyevich Mozgovenko was a Soviet and Russian clarinetist and music teacher.

Ivan Mozgovenko taught clarinet as a professor at the Gnessin State Musical College.

Ivan Mozgovenko was offered a commission as his unit demobilized, but continued his musical studies instead.

From 1953 to 1968, Ivan Mozgovenko was principal clarinetist with the State Symphony Cinema Orchestra.

In collaboration with the Borodin Quartet and other chamber ensembles, Ivan Mozgovenko recorded works by Mozart, Brahms, Prokofiev and some contemporary composers.

Ivan Mozgovenko's students include many clarinetists and award winners of international competitions.

Ivan Mozgovenko is the author of a number of textbooks and transcriptions for clarinet.

Ivan Mozgovenko performed with Russian quartets like the Prokofiev, Beethoven, Komitas and Glinka quartets, and with musicians like Svyatoslav Richter, Sergei Prokofiev, Maria Yudina, Van Cliburn and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Ivan Mozgovenko collaborated with notable conductors like Yevgeny Svetlanov, Kirill Kondrashin, Alexander Gauk, Leonard Bernstein, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev and Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Ivan Mozgovenko trained many musicians, becoming a founder of the Russian clarinet school.

Ivan Mozgovenko died on 31 December 2021, at the age of 97.

In Russia, Ivan Mozgovenko was considered the father of the current generation of clarinetists.

For Margarita Konstantinovna, one of his former students, Ivan Mozgovenko is an icon of Russian and world-spiritual art, who has made a great contribution to its development, with its own school, its own technique and many students.