Aleksandr Melik-Pashayev was a Soviet conductor, composer and pianist born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi) in 1905 who began his professional career in the 1920s and worked chiefly in opera and symphonic repertoire. He specialised in Russian operatic and orchestral works, served as a conductor at major Soviet theatres and made numerous studio and live recordings that document performance approaches to repertoire by composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
