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Sviatoslav Richter : pianist /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasmussen, Karl Aage
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, [2010]
Subjects:
Richter, Sviatoslav, > 1915-1997.
Pianists > Russia (Federation) > Biography.
Table of 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.