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Sviatoslav Richter : pianist / Karl Aage Rasmussen ; translated by Russell Dees.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML417.R38 R3713 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rasmussen, Karl Aage
- Standardized Title:
- Svjatoslav Richter. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richter, Sviatoslav, 1915-1997.
- Richter, Sviatoslav.
- Pianists--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Pianists.
- Russia (Federation).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, [2010]
- Contents:
- Letting the music speak
- Images and chimeras
- "A different kind of boy"
- Odessa : the light and the dark
- "I have had three teachers : my father, Wagner, and Heinrich Neuhaus"
- Moscow
- World War II from the sidelines
- Nina Lvovna
- Prokofiev
- Music, power, and musical politics
- Shostakovich
- The heartbreak
- Pianist on the world stage
- The nomad
- Piano, pianist, music, and audience
- The man behind invisible walls
- Perestroika and glasnost
- The final years
- The end
- Postlude
- The musical legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781555537104
- 1555537103
- OCLC:
- 437297699
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