Arnold Katz

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Arnold Mikhailovich Katz (Арнольд Михайлович Кац), born 18 September 1927 in Baku and died 22 January 2007 in Beijing, was a Soviet and Russian conductor, named People's Artist of the USSR in 1988. Arnold Katz was born into a family of a Jewish doctor specialising in neuropathology and a violinist mother. The family moved to Moscow in 1936, where he studied at the central music school of the Moscow Conservatory in the violin class.