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Alexander Tsfasman

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Birth Date:
14.12.1906
Death date:
20.02.1971
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.

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        1Ruzhena SikoraRuzhena SikoraCoworker20.08.191823.12.2006

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