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{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Fuat Mansurov
|image = Fuat Mansurov.jpg
|caption = Maestro Fuat Mansurov participates in the wreath-laying ceremony to the [[Ğabdulla Tuqay]] memorial on October 3, 2007 in [[Almetyevsk]], Republic of [[Tatarstan]], [[Russia]]
|native_name = {{lang-tt|Фуат Шакир улы Мансуров}}<br />{{lang-ru|Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович}}
|birth_date = January 10, 1928
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|6|12|1928|1|10}}
|death_place = [[Moscow]], Russia
|background = non_performing_personnel
|birth_place = [[Almaty]], Kazakhstan
|instrument =
|genre = [[Classical music|Classical]]
|occupation = [[Conductor (music)|Conductor]]
}}
'''Fuat Mansurov''' ({{lang-tt|Фуат Шакир улы Мансуров}}, {{lang-ru|Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович}}) (January 10, 1928 – June 12, 2010<ref>[http://www.rian.ru/culture/20100612/245429820.html Novosti brief obituary (Russian)]</ref>) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.<ref>[http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/theatre/orchestra/conductors/detail.php?act26=info&id26=488 Biography, Bolshoi Theatre (English)]</ref><ref>[http://www.bolshoi.ru/ru/theatre/orchestra/dirizhery/detail.php?act26=info&id26=488/ Biography, Bolshoi Theatre (Russian)]</ref>

Mansurov was born on 10 January 1928 in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]]. He graduated from [[Al-Farabi University]] in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]] in 1950 as a [[mathematician]] and then became a faculty member of the School of Math and Sciences there.

In 1951 Mansurov graduated from Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty, as a conductor. While at Kurmangazy Conservatory, he studied under [[Achmet Kujanowitsch Schubanow]] and Isidor Zach and then took his Doctoral studies at the [[Moscow Conservatory]] under [[Leo Ginzburg]]. Then Mansurov became an assistant conductor to [[Igor Markevitch]].

Between 1949 - 1952 Mansurov was a conductor of the Kurmangazy Kazakh Orchestra of Folk Instruments and then he became a conductor of Kazakh Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 1951 Mansurov became a faculty member of the [[Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory]] in Almaty.

In 1958 Mansurov became a founding member of the [[Kazakh National Symphony Orchestra]]. He held a position of [[Music Director]] and Principal Conductor with this orchestra till 1962. With this orchestra, Mansurov toured Germany, Poland, and Italy.

Between 1953 - 1956 and then between 1963 - 1968 Mansurov worked as an opera and ballet conductor of the [[Abay Opera House]]. In 1966 he won the second [[All-Union Conductors Competition]].

Since 1968 Mansurov became a Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after [[Musa Cälil]]. Since 1969 Mansurov became a conductor of Moscow [[Bolshoi Theatre]].

In 1970 Mansurov became a Professor of [[Moscow Conservatory]] and in 1986 became a Professor of [[Kazan Conservatory]] in [[Kazan]]. From 1989 and till his death in 2010, Mansurov was a Principal Conductor and [[Music Director]] of [[Tatar State Symphony Orchestra]] in Kazan.

He was a [[People's Artist of Russia]], [[Tatarstan]], and [[Kazakhstan]].

In 1991 Mansurov conducted the Bolshoi at the [[New York City|New York]] [[Metropolitan Opera]] for performances of Mlada and Eugene Onegin.<ref>Peter G. Davis ''Metropolitan Operatchiks'' New York Magazine Jul 15, 1991</ref>

He died, aged 82, in [[Moscow]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{YouTube|0BLVLFzVF6M|Astor Piazzolla's ''Oblivion''}} Version for Oboe and String Orchestra; State Symphony of Tatarstan, conductor Fuat Mansurov.
*{{YouTube|id=a97Huq7AOFA&list=PL0E392DA1884F4552|title=Celebration}} of [[Modest Mussorgsky| Modest Mussorgsky's]] 150 anniversary in [[Bolshoi Theatre]], conductor Fuat Mansurov.

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[[Category:1928 births]]
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[[Category:People from Almaty]]
[[Category:Russian conductors (music)]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani musicians]]
[[Category:Tatar people of Russia]]
[[Category:People's Artists of Russia]]
[[Category:Al-Farabi University alumni]]
[[Category:Musicians from Tatarstan]]
[[Category:Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery]]

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