Soviet military conductor, lieutenant colonel.
Biography.
He was born on September 27 [October 10], 1910 in the city of Romny (now Sumy region, Ukraine). From 1920 he served in the Red Army as a musician. In 1937, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in cello and conducting.
From 1938, he led the orchestra of the Kyiv Tank Technical School. In 1941, when the school was evacuated to the Urals to the city of Kungur, he created a large musical group (more than 100 people) at the educational unit. In 1945, together with conductor Demian Lytnovskyi, he created an exemplary orchestra of the staff of the Red Banner Kyiv Military District in Kyiv, where he worked as a chief conductor from 1945 to 1953 and 1963 to 1969, and from 1969 to 1975 as the head of the military orchestra service and artistic director. From 1953 to 1963, he worked in Kyiv as a director of orchestras of military schools and garrisons.
Emil Marcus's grave
He died in Kyiv on November 3, 1985. He was buried in Kyiv at the Berkivtsi City Cemetery (plot No. 93).
Awards and honors
He was awarded
Orders: two Red Stars (November 3, 1944; February 22, 1968), the Badge of Honor (September 13, 1945), the Red Banner (June 20, 1949), and Lenin (April 30, 1954);
Medal "For Victory over Germany" (May 9, 1945);
Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1963;
First prize at the competition of military bands of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (1970);
Laureate of the World Review of Military Bands in Sarajevo (1972).
