Max Rabinoff
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Portrait of Max Rabinoff, impresario, wearing his trademark fedora.
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Max A. Rabinoff 9 March 1878 Mogilev, Belarus (Formerly Russian Empire) |
| Died | 19 April 1966 (aged 88) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Opera and ballet impresario, and international economic adviser |
Max A. Rabinoff (March 9, 1877 – April 19, 1966) was a Russian-born, naturalized American opera and ballet impresario and international economic adviser. By the time he had become a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1898 he had already started an international import-export company focusing on encouraging American-Russian commerce. By 1908 he had entered the world of performing arts promotion, helping to organize the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago Opera Company. He is best known for founding the Boston Grand Opera Company in 1914, where he introduced American audiences to Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and her Russian Ballet Company during his time as managing director from 1914-1917. He also discovered, and soon married, singer Marie La Salle, who died less than two years after their marriage.
Max Rabinoff was born in Mogilev, in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) on March 9, 1877. He immigrated to the United States in 1892 and was naturalized in 1898 at the age of 21.
Soon after he became a naturalized American citizen, he founded the American-Russian Importing and Exporting Company, and later established a business to advise the American Government and American companies on trade with Russia and its satellites. During most of his life Rabinoff would be an ardent advocate of economic trade with the Soviet Union.
His first entry into the field of music was in the early 1900s as an employee of the Kimball Piano Company eventually becoming the owner of three piano stores of his own in the Chicago area. In 1908 he left the musical instrument business to organize musical events for the general public. He initiated Sunday Concerts in Chicago and helped organize the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago Opera Company.
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