Mikhail Aleksandrovich Wolf-Israel (b. 22 June 1870, St. Petersburg - d. 24 December 1934, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian and Russian violinist, conductor and music teacher.
Biography.
He was born on 10 [22] June 1870 in St. Petersburg. In 1890 he graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatoire, where he studied violin with Leopold Auer (previously he had studied with Pyotr Krasnokutsky).
Between 1892 and 1912 he worked as a concertmaster of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in St Petersburg. From 1913 he performed as a solo violinist and conductor in Rybinsk and Voronezh.
From the mid-1920s, he lived in Kyiv, where he worked as a concertmaster and conductor at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1926-1932, he led a string quartet at the All-Ukrainian Society of Revolutionary Musicians. He taught at the Kyiv Conservatory. He died in Kyiv on 24 December 1934.
