Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (????????? ????????????? ????????????) (born March 27, 1927) is a Russian cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest living cellists.

Early years

At the age of 4, he learned the piano with his mother who was a talented pianist, and started the cello at the age of 10 with his father, who had studied with Pablo Casals, and whose father was also a cellist.

Related Topics:
Piano - Pablo Casals

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He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1943, at the age of 16, where he studied the piano and the cello, but also conducting and composition. Among his teachers were Shostakovich and Prokofiev

Related Topics:
Moscow Conservatory - 1943 - Shostakovich - Prokofiev

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