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Semyon Bychkov, conductor
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Russian-born Semyon Bychkov was renowned in St Petersburg as a free thinker. When Soviet authorities disapproved of him conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and cancelled his concert, he left to start a new life in the US, aged just 22.
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