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Rostropovich : the musical life of the great cellist, teacher, and legend / Elizabeth Wilson.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML418.R77 W55 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Elizabeth, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007.
- Rostropovich, Mstislav.
- Cellists--Biography.
- Cellists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2008.
- Contents:
- Beginnings
- Studies at the Moscow Conservatoire
- The start of a performing career
- The young teacher
- Contacts with composers I : from Glière to Prokofiev
- Establishing new performance standards (1952-62)
- An independent teacher
- Contacts with composers II : Shostakovich and his successors
- Interlude 1 : Natalya Shakhovskaya
- Popularizing the cello
- Interlude 2 : Aleksandr Knaifel
- The early 1960s
- Interlude 3 : Natalya Gutman
- Teaching principles : class 19 in the 1960s
- Interlude 4 : Karine Georgian
- Principles of interpretation
- Interlude 5 : Victoria Yagling
- The late 1960s
- Interlude 6 : Ivan Monighetti
- The final years in the Soviet Union.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781566637763
- 1566637767
- OCLC:
- 156902349
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