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Valery Gergiev is a well-regarded Russian conductor of classical music and opera who has led many of the world's great orchestras and recorded albums of mostly Russian composers with 17 Grammy Award nominations to his name. He was named principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in 2005 and chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic in 2015. His 2017 album 'Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel' was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Opera Recording in the 2018 awards. Born in Moscow, he studied music at the Leningrad Conservatory. He became assistant conductor at...