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Aldeburgh Festival
The Aldeburgh Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on the main concert hall at Snape Maltings.
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Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan ( ; ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (), is one of the six independent Turkic states in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south.
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Azerbaijan SSR
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Baku
Baku (), sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan and all the Caucasus. Located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City (21.5 ha). Dating to antiquity, its urban population at the beginning of 2009 was estimated at just over two million people.
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Budapest
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Denmark
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Lithuania
Lithuania (, U.S. usually ; ), officially the Republic of Lithuania () is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Madrid
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Masovian Voivodeship
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Moscow
Moscow ( or ; ; see also ) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a global city. Moscow is the most populous city on the continent of Europe and the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. The population of Moscow (as of 1 January 2010) is 10,563,038.
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Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory () is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St. Petersburg Conservatory, it is one of the leading music universities in the country.
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Novodevichy Cemetery
:For a cemetery in St. Petersburg, see Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
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Orenburg
Orenburg () is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russia. It lies 1,478 km southeast of Moscow, very close to the border with Kazakhstan. Population: 542,700 (2005 est.); 549,361 (2002 Census). Highest point: 154.4 m. International dialing code: +7 (3532). Postal code: 460000. As of 2006, the mayor of the city is Yuri Meshcheryakov.
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Red Square
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Sotheby's
'''Sotheby's''' is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.
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Soviet Union
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St. Petersburg
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Tokyo
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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USSR
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Vilnius
Vilnius (, see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 (850,324 together with Vilnius County) as of 2010. is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County.
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West Germany
West Germany () is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG () in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. This period, during which Germany and Berlin were divided, ended when communist East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the eleven states of the Federal Republic of Germany. The enlarged Federal Republic of Germany with sixteen states (known simply as "Germany") is thus the continuation of the pre-1990 Federal Republic of Germany, and not its successor.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
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Adolph Green
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Aldo van Eyck
Aldo van Eyck or van Eijk (16 March 1918, Driebergen, Utrecht, Netherlands - 14 January 1999) was an Architect from the Netherlands.
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Alexander Dubček
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Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov () (b. June 14, 1951, Podorwikha, Irkutsk Oblast) is a Russian filmmaker.
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Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia and a resident of the United Kingdom. He is also a poet and author of the surreal.
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Alfred Schnittke
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Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (born 9 September 1953, Namangan Province, Uzbek SSR, USSR) is a Russian based businessman of Uzbek origin.
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András Schiff
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André Previn
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Andrés Segovia
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter (born June 29, 1963) is a German violin virtuoso.
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Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer was born on March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen. He is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, , clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the theological concepts of Kabbalah.
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Antal Doráti
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Antoni Tàpies
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Antonín Dvořák
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Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; ; ) (June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) (born in Tiflis, Georgia, Russian Empire) was a Soviet-Armenian composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Arthur Bliss
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Arthur Rubinstein
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Arvo Pärt
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and guitar playing.
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Benjamin Britten
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Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. In 1958, he performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival.
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Bernadette Chirac
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Betty Comden
Betty Comden (May 3, 1917 November 23, 2006) was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed "Freed Unit" at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein.
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 190627 March 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won three Academy Awards for producing, directing and writing the same film (The Apartment).
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Birgit Nilsson
Birgit Nilsson (May 17, 1918 – December 25, 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.
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Björk
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Bob Dylan
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Boris Yeltsin
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Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli (; born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is an Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best-known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque and classical music. She is known for having the versatility to play both soprano and mezzo roles, and is sometimes considered a soprano with a low tessitura. Bartoli's coloratura skill has earned her the title the Queen of Agility.
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Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theatre and television.
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Chiyonofuji
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Christoph Eschenbach
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Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (; born June 26, 1933), is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra from 1989 to 2002, when he retired from the position for health reasons.
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Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born Israeli pianist and conductor. He is also known for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Sevilla-based orchestra of young Arab and Jewish musicians.
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Denys Lasdun
Sir Denys Lasdun CH (8 September 1914–11 January 2001) was an eminent English architect of the 20th century. Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the River Thames, which is a Grade II listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Dmitry Kabalevsky
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (; 18 February 1987) was a Russian Soviet composer.
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Edward Albee
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Edward Villella
Edward Villella (born October 1, 1936, Bayside, New York) is an American ballet dancer and choreographer, frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer.
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Elizabeth Wilson
Elizabeth Welter Wilson (born April 4, 1921) is an American actress. She was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Fayard Nicholas
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
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Fred Ebb
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Frei Otto
Frei Paul Otto (31 May 1925) is a German architect and structural engineer.
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Fumihiko Maki
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Galina Vishnevskaya
Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya () (born 25 October 1926) is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966.
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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German visual artist.
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Giancarlo De Carlo
Giancarlo De Carlo (December 12, 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an Italian architect.
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Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer () (born February 27, 1947) is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.
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Ginger Rogers
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Giya Kancheli
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Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
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György Kurtág
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György Ligeti
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Hans Kindler
Johannes Hendrikus Philip "Hans" Kindler (January 8, 1892 – August 30, 1949) was an American cellist and conductor.
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Harold Nicholas
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Harold Prince
Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards. His shows are known for their political context, new approach to romance, and characters who sing and dance with thematic import.
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Heinz Holliger
Heinz Holliger (born ) is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.
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Hildegard Behrens
Hildegard Behrens (9 February 1937 in Varel, Germany18 August 2009 in Tokyo, Japan) was a German soprano with a wide repertory including Wagner, Weber, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg roles.
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Howard Mitchell
Howard Mitchell (1910 – 22 June 1988, Palm Coast, Florida) was an American cellist and conductor. He conducted the National Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1969.
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Igor Stravinsky
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Ilham Aliev
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Isaac Stern
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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Jacques d'Amboise
'''Jacques d'Amboise''' (born July 28, 1934) is a well-known American ballet dancer, choreographer, and film actor.
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James Turrell
James Turrell (born 1943, Pasadena, California). He is an artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.
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Janet Baker
Dame Janet Abbott Baker, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
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Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. (July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American actor on stage and in film and television and a winner of the Tony Award (theatre), two Academy Awards (film) and the Emmy Award (television). He was also a United States Navy combat veteran of World War II.
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Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.
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Jean Nouvel
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Jean-Pierre Rampal
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Jessye Norman
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Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman.
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Johannes Brahms
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John Eliot Gardiner
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John Kander
John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is the American composer of a number of musicals as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb.
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Johnny Carson
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Johnny Cash
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall i Bernadet (born 1941, in Igualada, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish Catalan viol player, conductor, and composer. He has been one of the major figures in the field of early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for bringing the viol (viola da gamba) back to life on the stage. His characteristic repertory ranges from Medieval to Renaissance and Baroque music, though he has occasionally ventured into the classical or even the romantic period.
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Josef Tal
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Joseph Haydn
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José Antonio Abreu
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Judith Jamison
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Jule Styne
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Julian Lloyd Webber
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Jørn Utzon
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Katharine Hepburn
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist/composer who has performed in both jazz and classical music.
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Kirk Douglas
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Krystian Zimerman
Krystian Zimerman (born December 5, 1956) is a Polish classical pianist who is widely regarded as one of the finest pianists alive.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
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Lauren Bacall
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Leo Ginzburg
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (, ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and On the Town. Bernstein was the first classical music conductor to make numerous television appearances between 1954 and 1989. He had a formidable piano technique and as a composer also wrote symphonies and other concert music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
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Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor and composer.
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Lionel Hampton
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Lopes Graça
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Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia for voices and orchestra and his series of numbered solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.
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Marc Chagall
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Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief (born January 24, 1925) was the first American prima ballerina. From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is best known for her time with the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1965.
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Marie-Claire Alain
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Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934, Bradford, Pennsylvania) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages.
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Marion Williams
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Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine concert pianist. Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career. Nevertheless she is widely recognized as one of the greatest modern-day pianists.
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Michala Petri
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Mikhail Chulaki
Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki (born 6/19 November 1908, Simferopol; died 1989) was a Soviet composer and teacher.
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Miles Davis
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Mischa Maisky
Mischa Maisky (; born January 10, 1948 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian cellist.
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Mogens Wöldike
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Morton Gould
Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
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Naina Yeltsina
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Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter. His numerous Broadway successes have led to his work being among the most regularly performed in the world.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt ('''Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt''') (born 6 December 1929) is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.
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Olivier Messiaen
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Pau Casals
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Paul McCartney
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Paul Newman
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Per Nørgård
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Pete Seeger
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Peter Eisenman
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Peter Gabriel
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Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier (born July 29, 1935) is a German tenor and conductor.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez () (born March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and a conductor.
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Plácido Domingo
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Queen Sofia
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Queen Sofía of Spain
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Quincy Jones
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Rafael Kubelík
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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Renée Fleming
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Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (; born July 28, 1941) is an Italian conductor. In May 2008 he was appointed the 10th music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, effective with the 2010-11 season.
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Risë Stevens
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Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (, respell|), commonly called Bob Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
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Rodion Shchedrin
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Rosemarie Trockel
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Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
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Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991), was a Bohemian-born pianist.
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Schubert
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Sean Connery
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Seiji Ozawa
is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera.
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev () (5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
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Sergiu Celibidache
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Shirley Temple
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Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE ( or ; born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
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Simon Rattle
Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE, FRSA, (born 19 January 1955) is an English conductor. He rose to international prominence as conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and since 2002 has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (BPO).
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (, ) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.
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Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Steve Reich
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Stevie Wonder
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Sviatoslav Richter
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Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (; ; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Valery Gergiev is the artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
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Victor Borge
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Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (; ) (October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were and remain legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
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Vladimir Putin
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Willie Nelson
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Witold Lutosławski
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Yehudi Menuhin
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Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards. He is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age.
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Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.
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Álvaro Siza Vieira
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Ástor Piazzolla
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Rostropovich, Mstislav Filmography
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch - Dem kühlen Morgen entgegen (2008)
- Rubljovka - Straße zur Glückseligkeit (2007)
- Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya. (2006)
- Great Conversations in Music (2005)
- Placido Domingo with Mstislav Rostropovich (2004)
- War Requiem in Peenemünde (2003)
- Prom at the Palace (2002)
- Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey (2002)
- The Roof (2001)
- Herbert von Karajan 1908-1989 (1999)
- The Abbey Road Story (1998)
- David Oistrakh: Artist of the People? (1996)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1992)
- November Days (1991)
- Bach: Cello Suites (1991)
- Elokuun vallankumous (1991)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1981)
- S. Hurok Presents - Part III (1969)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello in E-flat major, Op. 3: I. Allegro con brio
- Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello in E-flat major, Op. 3: II. Andante
- Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello in E-flat major, Op. 3: III. Menuetto. Allegretto
- Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello in E-flat major, Op. 3: IV. Adagio
- Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello in E-flat major, Op. 3: V. Menuetto. Moderato
- Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello in E-flat major, Op. 3: VI. Finale. Allegro
- Serenade for Violin, Viola, and Cello in D major, Op. 8: I. Marcia. Allegro - Adagio
- Serenade for Violin, Viola, and Cello in D major, Op. 8: II. Menuetto. Allegretto
- Serenade for Violin, Viola, and Cello in D major, Op. 8: III. Adagio - Scherzo. Allegro molto - Adagio - Allegro molto - Adagio
- Serenade for Violin, Viola, and Cello in D major, Op. 8: IV. Allegretto alla Polacca
- Serenade for Violin, Viola, and Cello in D major, Op. 8: V. Theme and Variation. Andante quasi Allegretto - Var. I-IV - Marcia. Allegro
Vivaldi, Tartini, Boccherini: Cellos Concertos (feat. cello: Mstislav Rostropovitch, Collegium Musicum Zürich feat. Conductor Paul Sacher)
Released [2007]
Released [2007]
- Concerto for Cello and Strings No. 2 in D major: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Strings No. 2 in D major: II. Adagio
- Concerto for Cello and Strings No. 2 in D major: III. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in C major, RV 398: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in C major, RV 398: II. Largo
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in C major, RV 398: III. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Strings in A major: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Strings in A major: II. Larghetto
- Concerto for Cello and Strings in A major: III. Allegro assai
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in G major, RV 413: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in G major, RV 413: II. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in G major, RV 413: III. Allegro
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107: I. Allegretto
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107: II. Moderato
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107: III. Cadenza
- Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107: IV. Allegro con molto
- Concerto for Cello, 17 Wind Instruments and Percussion
- Cello Concerto: I
- Cello Concerto: II
- Cello Concerto: III
- Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": I. Enigme (Très libre et flexible)
- Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": II. Regard (Extrêmement calme)
- Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": III. Houles (Large et ample)
- Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": IV. Miroirs (Lent et extatique)
- Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": V. Hymne (Allegro)
- Cello Concerto: I. Introduction
- Cello Concerto: II. Four episodes
- Cello Concerto: III. Cantilena
- Cello Concerto: IV. Finale
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 104: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 104: II. Adagio ma non troppo
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 104: III. Finale - Allegro moderato
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 129: I. Nicht Zu Schnell
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 129: II. Langsam
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 129: III. Sehr Lebhaft
- Andante Cantabile Op. Posth.
- Chant du ménéstrel Op. 71
Khachaturian: Concerto Rhapsody / Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations (feat. cello: Mstislav Rostropovich)
Released [2001]
Released [2001]
- Concerto Rhapsody for Violoncello and Orchestra
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 126: I. Largo
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 126: II. Allegretto
- Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 126: III. Allegretto
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Moderato quasi Andante - Tema: Moderato semplice
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variazione I. Tempo del Tema
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variazione II. Tempo del Tema
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variazione III: Andante sostenuto
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variazione IV. Andante grazioso
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variazione V: Allegro moderato
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variazione VI: Andante
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variazione VII e Coda: Allegro vivo
- Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in C major, Op. 56 "Triple Concerto": I. Allegro
- Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in C major, Op. 56 "Triple Concerto": II. Largo
- Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in C major, Op. 56 "Triple Concerto": III. Rondo alla Polacca
- Concerto for Violin and Cello with Orchestra in A minor, Op. 102 "Double Concerto": I. Allegro
- Concerto for Violin and Cello with Orchestra in A minor, Op. 102 "Double Concerto": II. Andante
- Concerto for Violin and Cello with Orchestra in A minor, Op. 102 "Double Concerto": III. Vivace non troppo
- Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82: Moderato - Andante - Allegro
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19: I. Andantino - Andante assai
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19: II. Scherzo - Vivacissimo
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19: III. Moderato
- Stikhira
- Konzert für Violoncello und Streicher, RV 413: I. Allegro
- Konzert für Violoncello und Streicher, RV 413: II. Largo
- Konzert für Violoncello und Streicher RV 413: III. Allegro
- Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester in A-Moll, Op. 129: I. Nicht zu schnell
- Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester in A-Moll, Op. 129: II. Langsam
- Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester in A-Moll, Op. 129: III. Sehr lebhaft
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Andante cantabile
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Moderato quasi Andante
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Tema Moderato semplice
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Variazione I. Tempo del tema
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Variazione II. Tempo del tema
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Variazione III. Andante sostenuto
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Variazione IV. Andante grazioso
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Variazione V. Allegro moderato
- Variationen über ein Rokoko: Thema für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 33: Variazione VI. Andante
- Variationen über ein Rokoko - Thema für Violoncello und Orchester Op. 33 - Variazione VII. Allegro vivo
- Chant du Menestrel Op. 71 für Violoncello und Orchester
- Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56: I. Allegro
- Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129: I. Nicht zu schnell
- Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129: II. Langsam
- Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129: III. Sehr Lebhaft
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Introduction & Theme: Moderato semplice
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Var. I. Tempo del tema
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Var. II. Tempo del tema
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Var. III. Andante sostenuto
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Var. IV. Andante grazioso
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Var. V. Allegro moderato - Cadenza
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Var. VI. Andante
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Var. VII. Allegro vivo
- Violin Concerto No. 2: I. Allegro moderato
- Violin Concerto No. 2: II. Andante assai
- Violin Concerto No. 2: III. Allegro ben marcato
- Violin Concerto No. 2: I. Moderato
- Violin Concerto No. 2: II. Adagio
- Violin Concerto No. 2: III. Adagio - Allegro
Dvořák Cello Concerto / Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations (feat. cello: Mstislav Rostropovich, Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
Released [1995]
Released [1995]
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 104: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 104: II. Adagio ma non troppo
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 104: III. Finale - Allegro moderato
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Moderato quasi Andante
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Tema. Moderato semplice
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Variazione I. Tempo del Tema
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Variazione II. Tempo del Tema
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Variazione III. Andante sostenuto
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Variazione IV. Andante grazioso
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.,33: Variazione V. Allegro moderato
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Variazione VI. Andante
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33: Variazione VII e Coda. Allegro vivo
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in C major, RV 398: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in C major, RV 398: II. Largo
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in C major, RV 398: III. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in G major, RV 413: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in G major, RV 413: II. Largo
- Concerto for Cello, Strings and Basso Continuo in G major, RV 413: III. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Strings in A major: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Strings in A major: II. Larghetto
- Concerto for Cello and Strings in A major: III. Allegro assai
- Concerto for Cello and Strings No. 2 in D major: I. Allegro
- Concerto for Cello and Strings No. 2 in D major: II. Adagio
- Concerto for Cello and Strings No. 2 in D major: III. Allegro
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Moderato quasi Andante (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Tema. Moderato semplice (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variation I. Tempo del tema (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variation II. Tempo del tema (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variation III. Andante sostenuto (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variation IV. Andante grazioso (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variation V. Allegro moderato (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variation VI. Andante (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33: Variation VII. Allegro vivo (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan)
- Toccata
- Adagio from oboe concerto arranged by J.S. Bach BWV 974
- Chorale Prelude: Ach, was ist doch unser Leben
- Chorale Prelude: Vater unser im Himmeireich
- Chorale Prelude: Christus, der uns selig macht
- Aria (arragened by Grigori Pekker)
- Adagio from Organ Toccta in C major BWV 546
- Seiben altfranzösische Mädchenbilder: La Florentine
- Seiben altfranzösische Mädchenbilder: La Provençale
- Seiben altfranzösische Mädchenbilder: La Lionnoise
- Seiben altfranzösische Mädchenbilder: La Bavaroise
- Seiben altfranzösische Mädchenbilder: La Russienne
- Seiben altfranzösische Mädchenbilder: La Siciliene
- Seiben altfranzösische Mädchenbilder: La Milaneze
- Sechs Stücke für Violine und Orgel op. 150: Abendlied
- Sechs Stücke für Violine und Orgel op. 150: Pastorale
- Sechs Stücke für Violine und Orgel op. 150: Elegie
- Prière op. 158
- Quartet in D major, K. 285: I. Allegro
- Quartet in D major, K. 285: II. Adagio
- Quartet in D major, K. 285: III. Rondeau: Allegretto
- Quartet in G major, K. 285a: I. Andante
- Quartet in G major, K. 285a: II. Tempo di Menuetto
- Quartet in C major, K. 285b: I. Allegro
- Quartet in C major, K. 285b: II. Andantino: Theme and Six Variations
- Quartet in A major, K 298; I. Andantino: Theme and Four Variations
- Quartet in A major, K 298; II. Menuetto: Trio
- Quartet in A major, K 298; III. Rondieaoux: Allegretto grazioso
Born: ['1927-03-27']
Died: ['2007-04-27']
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Rostropovich plays the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
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- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 21 Jan 2007
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
. DVD available from amzn.to Mstislav Rostropovich plays the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007. Filmed at the Basilique Sainte Madeleine, Vézelay, Yonne, France in 1991.
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Rostropovich Masterclass Cello Kronberg Academy Dvorak
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- Duration: 8:12
- Published: 14 May 2008
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
Masterclass Cello Dvorak Konzert Kronberg Academy www.kronbergacademy.com Produktion Kultur.Medien.Konzepte Seesemann
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Brahms Double Concerto : David Oistrakh (violin) & Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Complete.
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- Duration: 34:26
- Published: 18 Feb 2012
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
Johannes Brahms Double Concerto OP.102: David Oistrakh (violin) & Mstislav Rostropovich (cello). Direction : Kyril Kondrashin
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Rostropovich Bach Cello Suite No. 3 Prelude
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- Duration: 4:05
- Published: 25 Aug 2007
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Bach Cello Suite No. 3 BWV 1009 Prelude
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M.Rostropovich - Haydn Concerto No.1 C Major (3)
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- Duration: 6:06
- Published: 18 Jun 2008
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
J.Haydn - Cello Concerto No.1 in C major 3rd Mov Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) Academy of St Martin in the Fields *Note: If you liked this video, please support the artist by purchasing his/her products. Thank you.*
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Mstislav Rostropovich - Bach Cello Suite 2 I. Prelude
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- Duration: 4:29
- Published: 26 Dec 2007
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
VIVA SLAVA!
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Mstislav Rostropovich at the Kronberg Academy Interview Part 1
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- Duration: 11:35
- Published: 10 Aug 2011
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
Mstislav Rostropovich at the Kronberg Academy Interview with Kate and Sebastian Hess www.krobergacademy.de
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Brahms Cello Sonata opus 38 Rostropovich Richter 1. Movement
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- Duration: 12:53
- Published: 18 Sep 2011
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello & Sviatoslav Richter, piano Recorded (live): Parish Church, Aldeburgh, 20 June 1964 The Brahms Cello Sonata in e minor with Richter have circulated for years on the tape underground but here we have the BBC's own masters in stereo. These tapings are also notable because they are among the very few performances that the duo gave outside Russia.
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Mstislav Rostropovich - Bach Cello Suite 5 I. Prelude
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- Duration: 7:39
- Published: 25 Jun 2008
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
VIVA SLAVA!
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Tribute to Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist
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- Duration: 2:37
- Published: 28 Apr 2007
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
Tribute to Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist
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Rostropovich Popper Dance of the Elves
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- Duration: 2:25
- Published: 16 Oct 2007
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Elena Rostropovich (piano) Olga Rostropovich
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Mstislav Rostropovich "Cello Concerto" Honegger
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:25
- Published: 30 Mar 2011
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Cello Concerto in C Major by Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) "Moderato-Lento-Allegro marcato" Mstislav Rostropovich, cello USSR State Symphony Orchestra Victor Dubrovsky, conductor 14.II.1962
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Rostropovich Bach Cello Suite No.4 Prelude
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- Duration: 4:31
- Published: 25 Aug 2007
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Bach Cello Suite No. 4 BWV 1010 Prelude
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Mstislav Rostropovich - Bach suite 1 III. Courante
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 26 Dec 2007
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
VIVA SLAVA!
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Piazzolla Le Grand Tango Mstislav Rostropovich (Audio Only)
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- Duration: 9:38
- Published: 20 Mar 2010
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) Le Grand Tango (Dedicated to M. Rostropovich) Mstislav Rostropovich, Cello Igor Uriash, Piano
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Dvorak Cello Concerto : Rostropovich Part 1
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- Duration: 9:37
- Published: 23 Jan 2007
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
The Great Rostropovich Playing the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Carlo Maria Giulini and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Mstislav Rostropovich "Cello Concerto" Dvorak (1. Mov.)1999
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- Duration: 14:56
- Published: 06 Jan 2012
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104 by Antonin Dvorak 1. Movement "Allegro moderato" Mstislav Rostropovich, cello New York Philharmonic Kurt Masur, conductor New York, 23.IX.1999
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Rostropovich plays Bach´s Bourree - Suite No 3
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- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 16 Sep 2006
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
(EDIT: April 27th, 2007) WE´LL MISS YOU. THANKS FOR THE MAGIC YOU LEAVE BEHIND. Mstislav Rostropovich plays Bach´s Suite for Solo Cello in C Major: Bourreé ORTF, Paris, December 1962
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Mstislav Rostropovich on Dimitris Sgouros
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- Duration: 10:27
- Published: 24 Aug 2009
- Updated: 26 Jun 2012
Rostropovich hails Greek pianist Dimitris Sgouros as a "miracle" in this 1983 television interview from the UK. (NB: Rostropovich first performed with Sgouros when he was 12 in 1982, and not 13 as stated in the interview) Please check out the 15 minute interview which Sgouros gave in Dallas/Forth Worth (1989):- www.youtube.com * For futher info on Sgouros:- www.sgourosmp3.com
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Mstislav Rostropovich "Cello Concerto A minor" (1. Mov.) Saint-Saens
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- Duration: 6:11
- Published: 19 Dec 2010
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 33 by Camille Saint-Saens 1. Movement "Allegro non troppo" USSR State Symphony Orchestra Victor Dubrovsky, conductor 14.II.1964
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Mstislav Rostropovich at the Kronberg Academy Interview Part 2
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- Duration: 7:45
- Published: 10 Aug 2011
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Mstislav Rostropovich in conversation with Kate and Sebastian Hess www.kronbergacademy.com
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Mstislav Rostropovich~ Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 - 1/4
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- Duration: 15:08
- Published: 27 Apr 2011
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 1. Moderato National Symphony Orchestra USA Conductor - Mstislav Rostropovich (27/03/1927- 27/04/2007) Grande of the Halls of Conservatory Moscow February 13, 1990
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Mstislav Rostropovich ~"Stars and Stripes Forever"~ Finale
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- Duration: 6:41
- Published: 27 Apr 2011
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
"Stars and Stripes Forever" march by John Philip Sousa National Symphony Orchestra USA Conductor - Mstislav Rostropovich (27/03/1927- 27/04/2007) Grande of the Halls of Conservatory Moscow February 13, 1990
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Mstislav Rostropovich
13 Jan 2008
The Washington Times
American music lovers who know Mstislav Rostropovich only from his years in the West as a cellist and conductor following his forced departure from the Soviet Union in 1974 will rejoice to have Elizabeth Wilson's gold mine of insights into the first 47 years of this larger-than-life musician,...(size: 7.7Kb)
The Statesman
Soon after his eightieth birthday earlier this month the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, affectionately known throughout the world of music as Slava, passed away. He was unwell for quite sometime but was looking forward to a birthday gala at the Kremlin when he died. As the cellist...(size: 3.1Kb)
Remembering Mstislav Rostropovich
02 May 2007
Voa News
Internationally renowned cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, died Friday, April 27 in Moscow at age 80. The great cellist spent much of his life in the United States after he was formally exiled from his native Russia in 1978. VOA's John Stevenson recalls the life of the musician critics...(size: 4.8Kb)
Star Telegram
The friend of Van Cliburn's lived in exile from his Russian homeland for years. "A titan among musicians." That is how pianist Van Cliburn remembered his friend and colleague Mstislav Rostropovich, the world-famous cellist and conductor who died Friday in Moscow. The cause of Rostropovich's death...(size: 4.7Kb)
Mstislav Rostropovich, R.I.P.
29 Apr 2007
International Herald Tribune
As a cellist, conductor and composer, Mstislav Rostropovich held about every great award and title the world had to offer; possessed of extraordinary energy, he performed in every corner of the world; endowed with huge talent, he was ranked by music critics among the greatest cellists of all. Yet...(size: 4.0Kb)
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Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich Buried
29 Apr 2007
Sun Sentinel
MOSCOW -- Mstislav Rostropovich, the renowned cellist and conductor who won world fame for his masterly playing and his courage in defending human rights, was buried Sunday in the Moscow cemetery that holds the graves of many of Russia's most luminous artists and thinkers. Several thousand Russians...(size: 4.6Kb)
Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80
28 Apr 2007
Sun Sentinel
MOSCOW -- Mstislav Rostropovich played the cello with grace and verve -- and lived his life offstage the same way. His death at age 80 takes away one of modern Russia's most compelling figures, admired both for his musical mastery and his defiance of Soviet repression. Rostropovich stirred souls...(size: 9.3Kb)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH: 1927-2007
28 Apr 2007
San Fransisco Chronicle
Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist, conductor and champion of human rights who stood at the center of musical and international life for more than half a century, died Friday of cancer at a Moscow hospital. He was 80. Rostropovich was hospitalized in February with an unspecified illness, but seemed...(size: 8.4Kb)
An appreciation of maestro Mstislav Rostropovich
28 Apr 2007
Seattle Times
MOSCOW - Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died. He was 80. Rostropovich died Friday in a Moscow cancer hospital, the Itar-Tass news agency reported....(size: 8.5Kb)
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, pronounced [rəstrɐˈpɔvʲɪtɕ]; March 27, 1927 – April 27, 2007), was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of all time. In addition to his outstanding interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist before or since. He gave the premieres of over 100 pieces,[1] forming long-standing friendships and artistic partnerships with composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutoslawski, Alfred Schnittke, Andreas Makris and especially Benjamin Britten.
Rostropovich was internationally recognized as a staunch advocate of human rights, and was awarded the 1974 Award of the International League of Human Rights.
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Early years[link]
Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR, to parents who had moved from Orenburg.[2] Rostropovich was of mostly ethnic Russian ancestry; his father, Leopold Vitoldovich Rostropovich, was also partly of Polish noble descent. That part of his family bore the Bogorya coat of arms, which was located at the family palace in Skotniki, Masovian Voivodeship. He grew up in Baku and spent his youth there. During World War II his family moved back to Orenburg and then in 1943 to Moscow.[3]
At the age of four, Rostropovich learned the piano with his mother, Sofiya Nikolaevna Fedotova, a talented pianist. He began the cello at the age of 10 with his father, who was a renowned cellist and former student of Pau Casals.[4]
In 1943, at the age of 16, he entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied cello, piano, conducting and composition. His teachers included Dmitri Shostakovich. In 1945 he came to prominence as a cellist when he won the gold medal in the first ever Soviet Union competition for young musicians.[4] He graduated from the Conservatory in 1948, and became professor of cello there in 1956.
First concerts[link]
Rostropovich gave his first cello concert in 1942. He won first prize at the international Music Awards of Prague and Budapest in 1947, 1949 and 1950. In 1950, at the age of 23 he was awarded what was then considered the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, the Stalin Prize.[5] At that time, Rostropovich was already well known in his country and while actively pursuing his solo career, he taught at the Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) Conservatory and the Moscow Conservatory. In 1955, he married Galina Vishnevskaya, a leading soprano at the Bolshoi Theatre.[6]
Rostropovich had working relationships with Soviet composers of the era. In 1949 Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119, for the 22-year old Rostropovich, who gave the first performance in 1950, with Sviatoslav Richter. Prokofiev also dedicated his Sinfonia Concertante for cello to him; this was premiered in 1952. Rostropovich and Dmitry Kabalevsky completed Prokofiev's Cello Concertino after the composer's death. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote both his first and second cello concertos for Rostropovich, who also gave their first performances.
His international career started in 1963 in the Conservatoire of Liège (with Kirill Kondrashin) and in 1964 in West Germany. Rostropovich went on several tours in Western Europe and met several composers, including Benjamin Britten. Britten dedicated his Cello Sonata, three Solo Suites, and his Cello Symphony to Rostropovich, who gave their first performances, and the two had an obviously special affinity - Rostropovich's family described him as "always smiling" when discussing "Ben", and on his death bed he was said to have expressed no fear as he and Britten would, he believed, be reunited in Heaven.[7] Britten was also renowned as a piano accompanist and together they recorded, among other works, Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor D.821. Even on his deathbed his daughter claimed that this recording moved her father to tears of joy.
Rostropovich took private lessons in conducting with Leo Ginzburg,[8] and first conducted in public in Gorky in November 1962, performing the four entractes from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and Shostakovich's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death with Vishnevskaya singing.[9] In 1967, at the invitation of the Bolshoi Theatre's director Mikhail Chulaki, he conducted Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin at the Bolshoi, thus letting forth his passion for both the role of conductor and the opera.[10]
Proms on August 21, 1968[link]
Rostropovich played at The Proms on the night of August 21, 1968. He played with the Soviet State Symphony Orchestra and it was the orchestra's debut performance at the Proms. The programme featured Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto and was the same day that Russians invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring.[11] After the performance, which had been preceded by heckling and demonstrations, the orchestra and soloist were cheered by the Proms audience.[12] Rostropovich stood and held aloft the conductor's score of the Dvořák as a gesture of solidarity for the composer's homeland and the city of Prague, a place he loved.
As an encore he played Bach's haunting sarabande no. iv from Suite 2 in D minor BWV 1008, a piece which he said he liked to offer to those who were sad.
Exile[link]
Rostropovich fought for art without borders, freedom of speech, and democratic values, resulting in harassment from the Soviet regime. An early example was in 1948, when he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory. In response to the 10 February 1948 decree on so-called 'formalist' composers, his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich was dismissed from his professorships in Leningrad and Moscow; the then 21-year-old Rostropovich quit the conservatory, dropping out in protest.[13] In 1970, Rostropovich sheltered Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who otherwise would have had nowhere to go, in his own home. His friendship with Solzhenitsyn and his support for dissidents led to official disgrace in the early 1970s. As a result, Rostropovich was restricted from foreign touring,[14] as was his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, and his appearances performing in Moscow were curtailed, as increasingly was his appearances in such major cities as Leningrad and Kiev.[15]
Rostropovich left the Soviet Union in 1974 with his wife and children and settled in the United States. He was banned from several musical ensembles in his homeland, and his Soviet citizenship was revoked in 1978 because of his public opposition to the Soviet Union's restriction of cultural freedom. He would not return to the Soviet Union until 1990.[5]
Further career[link]
From 1977 until 1994, he was musical director and conductor of the U.S. National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, while still performing with some of the most famous musicians such as Martha Argerich, Sviatoslav Richter, Daniel Shidarov and Vladimir Horowitz.[16] He was also the director and founder of the Rostropovich Music Festival and was a regular performer at the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK.[17]
His impromptu performance during the fall of the Berlin Wall as events unfolded was reported throughout the world.[18] His Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990, although he and his family had already become American citizens.
When in August 1991 news footage was broadcast of tanks in the streets of Moscow Rostropovich responded with a characteristically brave, impetuous and patriotic gesture: he bought a plane ticket to Japan via Moscow, talked his way out of the airport at Moscow and went to join Boris Yeltsin in the hope that his fame might make some difference to the chance of tanks moving in.[19]
In modern Russia, Rostropovich was welcomed by high officials. Having supported Yeltsin during the 1993 constitutional crisis (he also conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in Red Square at the height of the crackdown),[20] and was also on friendly terms with Vladimir Putin.
In 1993 he was instrumental in the foundation of the Kronberg Academy and was a patron until his death. He commissioned Rodion Shchedrin to compose the opera Lolita and conducted its premiere in 1994 at the Royal Swedish Opera.
Rostropovich received many international awards, including the French Legion of Honor and honorary doctorates from many international universities. He was an activist, fighting for freedom of expression in art and politics. An ambassador for the UNESCO, he supported many educational and cultural projects.[21] Rostropovich performed several times in Madrid and was a close friend of Queen Sofía of Spain.
Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya founded the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation, a publicly supported non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C., in 1991 to improve the health and future of children in the former Soviet Union. The Rostropovich Home Museum opened on March 4, 2002, in Baku.[22] Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya visited Azerbaijan occasionally. Rostropovich also presented cello master classes at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory.
Together they formed a valuable art collection. In September 2007, when it was slated to be sold at auction by Sotheby's in London and dispersed, Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov stepped forward and negotiated the purchase of all 450 lots, in order to keep the collection together and bring it to Russia as a memorial to the great cellist's memory. Christie's reported that the buyer paid a "substantially higher" sum than the £20 million pre-sale estimate[23]
In 2006, he was featured in Alexander Sokurov's documentary Elegy of a life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya.[24]
His instruments included the 1711 Duport Stradivarius, a Storioni on which he made most of his recordings and a Peter Guarneri of Venice.
Later life[link]
Rostropovich's health declined in 2006, with the Chicago Tribune reporting rumors of unspecified surgery in Geneva and later treatment for what was reported as an aggravated ulcer. Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Rostropovich to discuss details of a celebration the Kremlin was planning for March 27, 2007, Rostropovich's 80th birthday. Rostropovich attended the celebration but was reportedly in frail health.
Though Rostropovich's last home was in Paris, he maintained residences in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Lausanne, and Jordanville, New York. Rostropovich was admitted to a Paris hospital at the end of January 2007, but then decided to fly to Moscow, where he had been receiving care.[25] On February 6, 2007 the 79-year-old Rostropovich was admitted to a hospital in Moscow. "He is just feeling unwell", Natalya Dolezhale, Rostropovich's secretary in Moscow, said. Asked if there was serious cause for concern about his health she said: "No, right now there is no cause whatsoever." She refused to specify the nature of his illness. The Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin had visited the musician on Monday in the hospital, which prompted speculation that he was in a serious condition. Dolezhale said the visit was to discuss arrangements for marking Rostropovich's 80th birthday. On March 27, 2007, the Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement praising Rostropovich.[26]
He re-entered the Blokhim Cancer Institute on April 7, 2007, where he was treated for intestinal cancer. He died on April 27, 2007.[18][27][28]
On April 28, Rostropovich's body lay in an open coffin at the Moscow Conservatory,[29] where he once studied as a teenager, and was then moved to the Church of Christ the Saviour. Thousands of mourners, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, bade farewell. Spain's Queen Sofia, French first lady Bernadette Chirac and President Ilham Aliev of Azerbaijan, where Rostropovich was born, as well as Naina Yeltsina, the widow of Boris Yeltsin, were among those in attendance at the funeral on April 29. Rostropovich was then buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, the same cemetery where his friend Boris Yeltsin was buried four days earlier.[30]
Stature[link]
Rostropovich was a huge influence on the younger generation of cellists. Many have openly acknowledged their debt to his example. In the Daily Telegraph, Julian Lloyd Webber called him "probably the greatest cellist of all time."[31]
Rostropovich either commissioned or was the recipient of compositions by many composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutosławski, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonard Bernstein, Alfred Schnittke, Aram Khachaturian, Ástor Piazzolla, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arthur Bliss and Lopes Graça. His commissions of new works enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist before or since.
He was the first performer of 117 pieces,[1] and is well known for his interpretations of Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor and Haydn's cello concerti in C and D,[citation needed] Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto and the two cello concerti of Shostakovich. Between 1997 and 2001 he was intimately involved in the development and testing of the BACH.Bow,[32] a curved bow designed by the cellist Michael Bach. In 2001 he invited Michael Bach for a presentation of his BACH.Bow to Paris (7ème Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch).[33] In July 2011, the city of Moscow announced plans to erect a statue of Rostropovich in a central square.[34]
He was also a notably generous spirit. Seiji Ozawa relates an anecdote: on hearing of the death of the baby daughter of his friend the sumo wrestler Chiyonofuji Slava flew unannounced to Tokyo, took a 1 1/2 hour cab ride to Chiyonofuji's house and played his Bach sarabande outside, as his gesture of sympathy - then got back in the taxi and returned to the airport to fly back to Europe.
Awards and recognitions[link]
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
Rostropovich received about 50 awards during his life, including:
- Russian Federation and USSR
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
- 1st class (24 February 2007) - for outstanding contribution to world music and many years of creative activity
- 2nd class (25 March 1997) - for services to the state and the great personal contribution to the world of music
- Medal Defender of a Free Russia (2 February 1993) - for their courage and dedication shown during the defence of democracy and constitutional order of 19–21 August 1991
- Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- Medal "For Valiant Labor. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- Medal "For development of virgin lands"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
- People's Artist of the USSR
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964)
- Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1955)
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995)
- Lenin Prize (1964)
- Stalin Prize (1951)
- Foreign
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2001)
- Heydar Aliyev Order (Azerbaijan, 2007)
- Order "Independence" (Azerbaijan, 3 March 2002)[35]
- Order of "Glory" (Azerbaijan, 1998)
- Order de Mayo (Argentina, 1991)
- Order of Freedom (Argentina, 1994)
- Commander of the Order of the Liberator General San Martín
- Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (Belgium, 1989)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2003)
- Order of Francisco de Miranda (Venezuela, 1979)
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001)
- Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
- Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark, 1983)
- Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain, 1985)
- Commander of the Order of Charles III (Spain, 2004)
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (31 August 1984)
- Grand Officer of the National Order of the Cedar (Lebanon, 1997)
- Grand Officer of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (Lithuania, 24 November 1995)
- January 13 Commemorative Medal (Lithuania, 10 June 1992)
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1999; previously Knight, 1982)
- Commander of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau (Luxembourg, 1991)
- Commander of the Order of Saint-Charles (Monaco, 1989)
- Order "For merits in the field of culture" (Monaco, 1999)
- Order of the Dutch Lion (Netherlands, 1989)
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1997)
- Order of Saint James of the Sword (Portugal)
- Order "For merits in the sphere of culture" (Romania, 2004)
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (USA, 1987)
- Honorable Order of the "Diamond Star" (Taiwan, 1977)
- Chevalier of the Order of the Lion of Finland
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (France, 1998; previously Commander, 1987, and Officer, 1981)
- Order of Arts and Letters (France, 1975)
- Order of Arts and Letters (Sweden) (1984)
- National Order "For Merit" (Ecuador, 1993)
- Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star (2nd class) (Japan, 2003)
- Citizen of Honor of Orenburg, Russia (1993)
- Sharaf Order (Order of Honor) of the Republic of Azerbaijan
- Honorary KBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 1987
- Other awards
- Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance (1984)
- Mstislav Rostropovich & Rudolf Serkin for Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38 and Sonata in F, Op. 99
- Polar Music Prize, 1995
- Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (1970)
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 1976
- Sonning Award (1981; Denmark)
- Prince of Asturias Award, 1997 (jointly with Yehudi Menuhin)
- Citizen of honor of Vilnius, Lithuania (2000)
- Konex Decoration granted by de Konex Foundation of Argentina in 2002.
- Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands awarded him the rare Medal for Art and Science (Dutch: "Eremedaille voor Kunst en Wetenschap") of the House-Order of Orange.
- Laurea ad honorem at the University of Bologna in Political Science, 2006.
- Sanford Medal (Yale University)[36]
- Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music, London.[37]
- Gold UNESCO Mozart Medal (2007)[38]
References[link]
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- ^ "Mstislav Rostropovich: Obituary". The Times (London). 28 April 2007. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1717247.ece. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ a b "Mstislav Rostropovich biography". Sony Classical. http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/rostropovich/bio.html. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
- ^ a b "Mirė maestro M.Rostropovičius" (in Lithuanian). Lietuvos rytas. 28 April 2007. http://www.lrytas.lt/?id=11776666481176558153&view=4. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
- ^ "Biography of Mstislav Rostropovitch". UNESCO. http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9925&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
- ^ John Bridcut, Galina Vishnevskaya, Olga Rostropovich, Elena Rostropovich; Seiji Ozawa, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Natalia Gutman, Mischa Maisky, Moray Welsh, Elizabeth Wilson, Karine Georgian (December 13, 2011). Rostropovich: The Genius Of The Cello (Television). BBC Four. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015j8g5.
- ^ Wilson: p. 34
- ^ Wilson: p. 188
- ^ Wilson: pp. 287-89.
- ^ "For One Night Only - The Prom of Peace". BBC Radio 4. 1 September 2007. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/foronenightonly/pip/jqmqo/. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
- ^ Wilson: pp. 292-93
- ^ Wilson: p. 45
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- ^ Wilson: p. 329
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica (27 April 2007). "National Symphony Orchestra". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002382/National-Symphony-Orchestra. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
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- ^ Wilson: p. 345
- ^ Steven Erlanger (September 27, 1993). "Isolated Foes of Yeltsin Are Sad but Still Defiant". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEEDF1039F934A1575AC0A965958260. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
- ^ "UNESCO Celebrity Advocates: Mstislav Rostropovitch". UNESCO. http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8327&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
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Further reading[link]
- Wilson, Elizabeth. Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend London: Faber & Faber, 2007. ISBN 978-0-571-22051-9
- "Mstislav Rostropovich : Conductor, Pianist and Outstanding Cellist of the Age for whom Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Britten Composed (obituary)". London: The Telegraph. 2007-04-28. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/28/db2801.xml. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- Reynolds, Nigel (2007-04-28). "Famed Russian Cellist Loses Cancer Battle". London: The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/27/nros27.xml.
- Lloyd Webber, Julian (2007-04-28). "'The Greatest Cellist of All Time'". London: The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/27/nros227.xml.
External links[link]
- Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation homepage
- Home-museum of Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich
- Mstislav Rostropovich - Daily Telegraph obituary
- Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Conductor, Humanitarian Cellist Arash Amini shares his personal experiences with Slava, a feature from the Bloomingdale School of Music (October, 2007)
- Why the cello is a hero, interview with the Daily Telegraph
- Interview by Tim Janof
- Famous People: Then and Now article and interview at Azerbaijan International (Winter 1999)
- Intellectual Responsibility. When Silence is Not Golden: Conversations with Mstislav Rostropovich, another Azerbaijan International interview (Summer 2005)
- Hearing Mstislav Rostropovich survey of Rostropovich recordings, by Jens F. Laurson (WETA, May 4, 2007)
- 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
- The first Prague Spring International Cello Competition in 1950 in photographs, documents and reminiscences
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| Preceded by Richard Goode & Richard Stoltzman |
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance 1984 |
Succeeded by Juilliard String Quartet |
| Preceded by Ray Charles and Ravi Shankar |
Polar Music Prize 1995 |
Succeeded by Pierre Boulez and Joni Mitchell |
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| Name | Rostropovich, Mstislav |
| Alternative names | Rostropovich, Mstislav Leopoldovich |
| Short description | Cellist, conductor, pedagogue |
| Date of birth | March 27, 1927 |
| Place of birth | Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR |
| Date of death | April 27, 2007 |
| Place of death | Moscow, Russia |
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