Ukrainian Soviet conductor. People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR (since 1943), People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (since 1947).
Biography.
He was born on February 2 (14), 1892 in Warsaw, where his father served as a colonel in the engineering troops. After his father's death in 1905, he returned with his mother to Tiflis, where he studied at the Tiflis Music School in 1910-1914 and graduated from the Tiflis Conservatory with a degree in composition and singing (both).
Conductor and head of the musical department of theaters in Tiflis. of the musical part of theaters in Tiflis (1914-18), Baku (1919-22), Tashkent (1923), Kazan (1924-27), Baku (1928-29), Vladivostok (1930), Sverdlovsk (1931-33), Yerevan (1934), Gorky (1935), and at the same time a professor at music universities in Baku, Sverdlovsk, Yerevan, and Kyiv; artistic director and chief conductor of the Opera and Ballet Theater of the Kazakh SSR (1941/42-1943). Conductor of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow (1947-48), Chief Conductor of the State Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus (1948-50), Professor of the Minsk Conservatory.
Since 1936 (with a break) he has been working at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater (since 1950 - Chief Conductor and Artistic Director). In 1944-1947 he was the chief conductor of the Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater. Since 1936, he has been a teacher, and since 1941, a professor at the Kyiv Conservatory.
He worked with such prominent Ukrainian singers as B. Hmyria, M. Hryshko, P. Belinnik, E. Chavdar, L. Rudenko, J. Lyubymova, M. Lytvynenko-Volhemut, I. Patorzhynsky, and others.
The grave of Volodymyr Piradov
He lived in Kyiv. He died on April 20, 1954. He was buried at the Baikove cemetery.
Daughter - People's Artist of Ukraine Bezano-Piradova Eleonora Volodymyrivna.
Stages.
He has directed operas:
"The Rift" by V. Femelidi (1932);
"Daisy by Z. Paliashvili (1938),
"Ivan Susanin by Nikolai Glinka (1939);
"The Hireling by M. Verikivsky (1944);
"Bohdan Khmelnytsky by K. Dankevych (1953, first performance).
