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	Mstislav Rostropovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич) (born March 27, 1927), affectionately known as Slava, is Russian and a naturalized American cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest cellists ever.
		Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan (then part of the Soviet Union).
		Mstislav Rostropovich and Rudolf Serkin for Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mstislav_Rostropovich (679 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mstislav Rostropovich
		Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич) (born March 27, 1927) is Russian and a naturalized American cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest living cellists.
		Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич) (born March 27, 1927) is a Russian cellist (Some who plays a violoncello) and conductor (The person who leads a musical group), considered to be one of the greatest living cellists.
		Rostropovich fought for art (The creation of beautiful or significant things) without borders, freedom of speech (A civil right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution) and democratic (additional info and facts about democratic) values, resulting in a reprimand from the Soviet regime.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mstislav-Rostropovich (2156 words)

	Mstislav Rostropovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (born March 27, 1927) is a Russian cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest living cellists.
		Rostropovich left the USSR in 1974 with his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya whom he had married in 1955.
		Rostropovich introduced Shostakovich's First Concerto to London in 1960 and began an association with Benjamin Britten, who wrote the Cello Sonata, suites and the Cello Symphony with him in mind.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mstislav_Rostropovich.html (246 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rostropovich was soloist in the premieres of Prokofiev's second Cello Concerto in 1952, Shostakovich's two Cello Concertos in 1959 and 1966, Britten's Cello Symphony in 1964 and Bliss's Cello Concerto in 1970.
		Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1927.
		Rostropovich was a close friend of Sergei Prokofiev and was the inspiration behind the LSO's Sergei Prokofiev: The Centenary Festival 1991, featuring orchestral and chamber music, and the world premiere of a cello fugue dedicated to Rostropovich.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/rosb.html (1158 words)

	Mstislav Rostropovich - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Rostropovich was universally hailed in both cities as an exceptional musician, in fact a superstar, to use a current term which was not then in use.
		Rostropovich played the premiere performance, then set off for the West with Shostakovich to make a classic premiere recording of it with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, a performance which was made even more thrilling by the presence of Philadelphia's powerful horn soloist, Mason Jones, in the concerto's prominent part for that instrument.
		Rostropovich and the orchestra formed a long-lasting partnership that lasted until 1997, elevating the morale and prestige of the orchestra in those years.
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	Mstislav Rostropovich - best music mp3 archive, free mp3 download, free mp3's Download : Chopin & Schumann, Finale , ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mstislav Rostropovich Sonate Chopin: Pour Piano Et Violoncelle Opus 65 Allegro, Polonaise Pour Piano Et Violoncelle Opus 3, Largo, Adagio Et Allegro Pour Piano Et Violoncelle Opus 70 Schumann.
		Mstislav Rostropovich Largo Sonate Chopin: Pour Piano Et Violoncelle Opus 65 Allegro, Scherzo, Supertramp.
		Mstislav Rostropovich 50 Cent Scherzo, Adagio Et Allegro Pour Piano Et Violoncelle Opus 70 Schumann, Sonate Chopin: Pour Piano Et Violoncelle Opus 65 Allegro.
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	Mstislav Rostropovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (born March 27 1927) is a Russian cellist and conductor considered to be one of the living cellists.
		Rostropovich left the USSR in 1974 with his wife the soprano Galina whom he had married in 1955.
		Rostropovich Shostakovich's First Concerto to London in 1960 began an association with Benjamin Britten who wrote the Cello Sonata suites the Cello Symphony with him in mind.
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		Rostropovich was born in Baku Baku quick summary:
		Rostropovich left the USSR in 1974 with his wife and children and settled in the United States[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
		Rostropovich's instrument is the Duport Stradivarius[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link].
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ms/mstislav_rostropovich.htm (1651 words)

	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - April 8b 2004
		Rostropovich will lead the Orchestra in six performances to include works by Tchaikovsky, Dutilleux, and Shostakovich, and will also be featured in a rare appearance as soloist with the CSO on Friday, April 23.
		Mstislav Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1927.
		Mstislav Rostropovich is also one of the world's outspoken defenders of human and artistic freedoms.
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	Mstislav Rostropovich News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mstislav Rostropovich Again Bringing World-Class Contemporary Classical Music To The Repertoire Of The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. French composer Henri Dutilleux [b.
		IN the early 1960's, the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the pianist Sviatoslav Richter, old friends from their conservatory days in Moscow, met several times in Austria to record Beethoven's five sonatas for...
		Though Mstislav Rostropovich is one of the towering musicians of our time, as a conductor, even in his prime years, he has never been an incisive technician.
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	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| The Guardian Profile: Mstislav Rostropovich
		Rostropovich has got "that grain of genius and prodigious energy that, combined, makes a great musician," says his colleague and friend, the conductor Sir Colin Davis, who this month will participate in a gala concert at the Barbican to celebrate Rostropovich's 75th birthday.
		Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich was born in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on March 27 1927.
		Of course, Rostropovich was a great man who performed a magnanimous, bold deed: he asked for an assault rifle and was loaned one for a time, even though every firearm was needed." Some say Rostropovich's arrival in the White House was a factor in the coup plotters' decision not to shell the building.
	www.guardian.co.uk /saturday_review/story/0,3605,660295,00.html (3566 words)

	11.2 Rostropovich The Home Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, at the opening of the Home Museum for Mstislav and Leopold Rostropovich, on March 4, 2002, in Baku.
		Rostropovich family shows Mstislav, as an infant, wrapped in a blanket lying in his father's cello case.
		In 1851, Mstislav Rostropovich Iosif Rostropovichyus was awarded with the title of Nobleman, at the General Assembly of Warsaw deputies.
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	Music Preview: Rostropovich weekend
		Rostropovich's father taught him on the cello, and his mother gave him piano lessons, home-schooling him until he was 11.
		Rostropovich and his wife lost their citizenship, but it was restored in 1990.
		Rostropovich continues to fight for human rights with the same ferocity he has battled to keep classical music alive and relevant.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20030131psoaep1.asp (1235 words)

	classical music - andante - london symphony orchestra, 19 march 2002: shostakovich
		In March and April of 2002, Mstislav Rostropovich celebrated his 75h birthday by leading the London Symphony Orchestra in the music of Shostakovich on a series of programs in London and New York.
		Rostropovich's powerful reading of the symphony achieves a monumentality that no other interpreter has yet approached, while bringing an element of sharpness and poignancy to the workers' songs that Shostakovich quotes throughout the piece.
		The London Symphony celebrates the 75th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich with a concerto and symphony by the composer with whom he is most associated, Dmitri Shostakovich.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16453 (375 words)

	Mstislav Rostropovich - Biography
		Born on 27 March 1927 in Baku, a city on the west shore of the Caspian Sea, Mstislav Rostropovich began musical studies in early childhood with his parents.
		Mstislav Rostropovich and his family departed from the Soviet Union in 1974 in the midst of a controversy that attracted international attention.
		Rostropovich and his wife the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya had supported the banned novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn not only by allowing him to live in their dacha outside Moscow but by writing an open letter to Brezhnev protesting against Soviet restrictions on cultural freedom in 1970.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/rostropovich/bio.html (401 words)

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		Mstislav Rostropovich is recognized internationally as a consummate musician and an outspoken defender of human rights.
		Rostropovich appeared as soloist in the Dvořák Cello Concerto in the Orchestra’s Moscow concert, marking his return to the stage after having been banned from performing for his support of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
		Rostropovich holds more than fifty honorary degrees and has received awards including Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Legion of Honor of France, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the US, and he shared the Polar Prize with Sir Elton John in 1995.
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	Mstislav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Mstislav is an Eastern Slavic male name, born by various rulers of early medieval Russia as well as by modern persons, most notably Mstislav Rostropovich.
		Mstislav Rostislavich (Mstislav the Brave) of Smolensk (+1180);
		Mstislav Mstislavich (Mstislav the Bold) of Novgorod (+1228);
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mstislav (161 words)

	Slava & Friends: A New York Philharmonic celebration of Mstislav Rostropovich
		Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, teacher, conductor, mentor to many young musicians, and friend and colleague of composers who were inspired to write for him, will be celebrated in the Philharmonic Festival: Slava and Friends, Thursday, March 20 through Saturday, April 5, 2003.
		Rostropovich conducting works by Bernstein, Prokofiev, Henri Dutilleux, and Lutoslawski, with pianist Martha Argerich as soloist - will be broadcast on the continuing monthly radio series WQXR.com Presents: The New York Philharmonic Live!, aired locally in New York on 96.3FM WQXR.
		Rostropovich will be on the podium for much of the festival with Ms.
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	7.4 Mstislav Rostropovich Cellist and Conductor
		Mstislav Rostropovich is recognized as one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century.
		Rostropovich became a teacher (1953) and later professor (1956) at the Moscow Conservatory and later a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (1961).
		Rostropovich organized the First Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris in 1981 and the Rostropovich Festival in Snape, England in 1983.
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	Bio for Mstislav Rostropovich
		Rostropovich is being celebrated in virtually every European country, Japan, and throughout North and South America.
		Rostropovich flew to North America for a six-week whirlwind tour which included New York City Carnegie Hall concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra--which were conducted by Seiji Ozawa and also celebrated the final year of his Music Directorship of the BSO--and a "Shostakovich Festival" at New York's Lincoln Center with the London Symphony Orchestra.
		Rostropovich's current efforts for humanitarian aid are channeled towards helping children's health in Russia; since 1992 the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation has sent over $5 million in medicine, food, and equipment--from medical to water purification--to children's hospitals in Russia, supporting village clinics as well as big-city centers.
	www.pittsburghsymphony.org /pghsymph.nsf/bios/72153F9545D0C67185256B6000683270 (692 words)

	Decca Music Group - Mstislav Rostropovich
		Mstislav Rostropovich is the son of a celebrated 'cello teacher who himself was a pupil of Casals.
		Britten wrote his 'cello suites and his 'cello symphony for Rostropovich and often performed as pianist in recital with him.
		Rostropovich married soprano Galina Vishnevskaya with whom he toured as pianist and conductor and with whom he has recorded both Russian and Italian opera.
	www.deccaclassics.com /artists/rostropovich/biog.html (319 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6: Music: Mstislav Rostropovich,Johann Sebastian Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky / Karajan, Rostropovich, ~ Mstislav Rostropovich
		You can feel Rostropovich pouring himself into this music - what is more, you feel a connection with him on the level that he is obviously feeling the music speak to him just as it does to you as a listener (he speaks in the notes of the introspective nature of performance).
		Rostropovich has a passionate and delicate interpretation that is neither overly rigid or romantic: they remain austere pieces but also have a spiritual quality to them that is most endearing.
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	Mstislav Rostropovich
		he extraordinary contribution that Mstislav Rostropovich had made to his art and his times has no parallel; as cellist, conductor, relentless defender of human rights, and inspiration of the creation of some of the 20th century's most important music.
		Maestro Rostropovich's career as a conductor began in 1961 in the Soviet Union, and he achieved tremendous success conducting both operas and orchestral music in his homeland.
		After a brilliant conducting debut in this country with the National Symphony Orchestra in 1975, he became music director of the NSO in 1977 and today is credited with transforming the orchestra into one of the finest in the nation.
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		Mstislav Rostropovich Honored for His Foundation's Efforts in...
		She and Mstislav Rostropovich played together for a benefit concert.
		Rostropovich is frequently associated with Prokofiev, whose Cello Concertino he completed after the composer's death.
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