Alexander Tsfasman
- Birth Date:
- 14.12.1906
- Death date:
- 20.02.1971
- Length of life:
- 64
- Days since birth:
- 42868
- Years since birth:
- 117
- Days since death:
- 19424
- Years since death:
- 53
- Extra names:
- Александр Цфасман, Александр Наумович Цфасман, Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman
- Categories:
- Composer, Conductor, Pianist, Public figure, Publicist
- Nationality:
- jew
- Cemetery:
- Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery
Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman (Russian: Александр Цфасман; born December 14, 1906 - died February 20, 1971) was a Soviet Jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, publisher and activist. He was an important figure in Soviet Jazz from the period of the mid-1920s until the late 1960s.
Tsfasman was born in Alexandrovsk (now Zaporizhya, Ukraine) in the Russian empire, and graduated from the Nizhegorod Musical Technicum in 1923, where he played percussion in the orchestra, and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1930 from the piano class of Felix Blumenfeld.
Source: wikipedia.org
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