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	Mstislav Rostropovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич) (born March 27, 1927) is a Russian cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest living cellists.
		Rostropovich fought for art without borders, freedom of speech and democratic values, resulting in a reprimand from the Soviet regime.
		Rostropovich left the USSR in 1974 with his wife and children and settled in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mstislav_Rostropovich (605 words)

	Mstislav Rostropovich biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Rostropovich fought for art without borders, freedom of speech and democratic values, which earned him a cold shoulder from the Soviet regime.
		Rostropovich introduced Shostakovich's First Concerto to London and began an association with Benjamin Britten, who wrote the Cello Sonata, suites and the Cello Symphony with him in mind.
		Rostropovich's instrument is the Duport Stradivarius, a Stradivarius cello built by Antonio Stradivari.
	mstislav-rostropovich.biography.ms (582 words)

	Mstislav Rostropovich -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Rostropovich fought for (The creation of beautiful or significant things) art without borders, (A civil right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution) freedom of speech and (Click link for more info and facts about democratic) democratic values, resulting in a reprimand from the Soviet regime.
		Rostropovich left the USSR in 1974 with his wife and children and settled in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
		Rostropovich introduced Shostakovich's First Concerto to London and began an association with (Major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)) Benjamin Britten, who wrote the Cello Sonata, 3 Solo Suites and the Cello Symphony with him in mind.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ms/mstislav_rostropovich.htm (808 words)

	Janos Starker: A 75th Birthday Celebration - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Mstislav Rostropovich is internationally recognized as a consummate musician.
		Rostropovich has devoted much of his career to the music of the 20th century.
		Rostropovich's interest in contemporary music has resulted in his conducting the world premieres of almost 60 orchestral works, as well as three major operas: Schnittke's Gesualdo and Life with an Idiot, and Shchedrin's Lolita.
	www.music.indiana.edu /som/ejmccf/1999/rostropovich.html (409 words)

	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)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Passionate Rostropovich elevates Seattle Symphony
		Rostropovich may be 77, but he still conducts with a searing intensity that brought tears to the eyes and a lump to the throat of many a concertgoer.
		Rostropovich conducted with small, precise movements of his hands (and occasionally the baton), but the big crescendos were accompanied by great shaking of fists and impassioned stabs at the relevant sections.
		Rostropovich and Shostakovich were close friends; it's hard not to imagine that the latter would have been moved and delighted by such an expertly committed reading of this masterpiece.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001905408_symp17.html (442 words)

	Guardian \| RCO/ Rostropovich
		Rostropovich, refusing to replicate them, is now working with the mezzo Olga Borodina, a singer who, to some extent, is the antithesis of his wife.
		Rostropovich is at his best in the Trepak, where the heaving eddies of orchestral sound mirror the movement of the snowdrifts in which the drunken peasant will eventually die.
		Rostropovich's interpretation of Shostakovich's Fifth is one with which UK audiences are already familiar, though this too has undergone a few shifts in emphasis.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4657198-108884,00.html (383 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Slava & Friends
		As a graduate student at Berkeley, I met Rostropovich in the flesh when he came to give a master class and recital at the University of California, in the autumn of 1975, about a year after he and his wife, singer Galina Vishnevskaya, had been expelled from the USSR as political dissidents.
		Rostropovich has continued to shed tears, and to give lavishly and apparently indefatigably, in the years since that memorable Berkeley master class in 1975.
		Rostropovich was one of the few people who managed to maintain close friendships with both Prokofiev and Shostakovich, who themselves remained at a respectful but wary distance from each other.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/272.html (1226 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		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)

	Guest Artists
		Rostropovich received the Stalin Prize, was named a People's Artist of the USSR, and was a recipient of the Lenin Prize, the nation's highest honor.
		Rostropovich's current humanitarian efforts are channeled toward children's health in Russia; since 1992 the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation has sent more than $5 million in medicine, food, and equipment to help those in need.
		Rostropovich has recorded virtually the entire cello repertory, and both Deutsche Grammophon and EMI released special commemorative CDs honoring his birthday.
	sfsymphony.org /templates/artist.asp?nodeid=2361&callid=250&eventid=941 (471 words)

	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)

	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)

	DvorГЎk: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky / Karajan, Rostropovich, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Mstislav Rostropovich is the world's greatest cellist, and he has actually made at least five recordings of this greatest of all cello concertos.
		With this great combination with both the virtuosic Rostropovich and Herbert von Karajan, it is a superior recording with outstanding ensemble and a fascinating performance that can be listened to over and over again with a new level of enjoyment each time.
		Rostropovich is without a doubt one of the greats, and this is the third version I bought, actually.
	494066.onlinesportdiscount.com /3439343036362d312d42303030303031475138.html (605 words)

	11.2 Rostropovich The Home Museum
		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.
		The Rostropovich Home Museum on 19 Rostropovich Street (previously Kolodezni Street) where the cellist was born and lived until age four when his family moved to Moscow.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/ai112_folder/112_articles/112_rostropovich.html (1336 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Rostropovich: a gracious, genuine living legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The USSR stripped Rostropovich of his citizenship in 1974, and the cellist didn't return until a triumphant visit with the National Symphony in 1990.
		In August 1991, Rostropovich impetuously flew — without a visa — in an unheralded dash to Moscow to join those in the Russian White House who were resisting the attempted coup.
		Rostropovich chuckles about the check for $40 he received from the Reader's Digest for the "Best Reply to a Question," after that publication asked him: "Is it true you married your wife (Bolshoi Opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya) four days after meeting her?
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001904318_conc16.html (939 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Mstislav Rostropovich
		Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan to a Jewish family and was taken by his family to Russia at an early age to study music.
		Mstislav Rostropovich is recognized internationally as a consummate musician and an outspoken defender of human rights.
		Prior to leaving the USSR on an exit visa, he had received the Stalin Prize, had been named a People's Artist of the USSR and was a recipient of the Lenin Prize, the nation's highest honor.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /MstislavRostropovich.htm (451 words)

	Rostropovich almost redeems grim piece
		If not even Mstislav Rostropovich can make something truly coherent and compelling out of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, you kind of have to wonder whether the trick can be done at all.
		This relentless, glowering score was the capstone of Rostropovich's conducting debut with the San Francisco Symphony in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, and it was certainly done with all the passion, intensity and rhythmic drive anyone could ask for.
		Rostropovich's increasingly frequent presence in San Francisco -- as a cellist in the past few seasons, and now for two weeks as a conductor as well -- is a welcome development.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/08/DD197033.DTL (552 words)

	MAESTRO ROSTROPOVICH: A TRIBUTE (2)
		One could say that Mstislav Rostropovich was born with music in his blood.
		It is not as well known today that Rostropovich the cellist is also an accomplished pianist, though it is a role he played in a supporting capacity as accompanist to his wife, the renowned Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya.
		Rostropovich the Maestro began his conducting career in the Soviet Union in 1961.
	www.ffaire.com /rost/rost2.html (790 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)

	The 'Superman' of the cello \| csmonitor.com
		NEW YORK – At 75, Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (or "Slava," as he is known) is undertaking barnstorming tours worldwide, barely pausing for tributes, such as the new commemorative CD sets from EMI and Deutsche Grammophon, and huzzahs from colleagues throughout the music world.
		Rostropovich also has used his muscle in the world of classical music to persuade composers to create new works for the cello.
		"[Rostropovich] always took the credit for everything and harbored ambitions that had nothing to do with music – and this from a man who was a musician to the very core of his being," Richter says.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0510/p20s01-almp.html (1146 words)

	MAESTRO ROSTROPOVICH: A TRIBUTE
		Rostropovich in turn honored the composer by playing the solo cello part.
		It is to these special friendships that he traces the great love of composers that drives him to seek out comtemporary composers and to seek audiences for their works.
		Rostropovich is perhaps the most highly decorated man in the annals of music.
	www.cello.org /cnc/maestr~1.htm (1501 words)

	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.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/74_folder/74.articles/74_rostropovich.html (934 words)

	LSO/Rostropovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		IT’S VERY much the eternal triangle of Shostakovich, Britten and Rostropovich which is defining the 75th birthday celebrations of the great Russian cellist at the Barbican.
		Vengerov, the London Symphony Orchestra and Rostropovich certainly pushed both the work’s violence and its consolatory lyricism to the extremes of eloquence.
		Rostropovich, the old man seeing visions, and Vengerov, the young man still dreaming his dreams: back they came, again and again, arm in arm, to acknowledge deafening applause.
	www.maximvengerov.org /pagereviews.php?numero=101 (368 words)

	Conversation with Yosif Feigelson
		Rostropovich's family, his parents, were constantly contacting Prokofiev.
		But when I came to Rostropovich it was a completely new phenomenon to me. I think I am trying to maneuver between the two because left hand strength is definitely important.
		Rostropovich always told him that he should write whatever his imagination led him to.
	www.cello.org /Newsletter/Articles/feigel.htm (2534 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mstislav Rostropovich
		Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian:) (April 271, 1891 â€“ March 5, 1953) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
		Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Die Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany.
		The Duport Strad, or Stradivarius, is a cello built in 1711 by Antonio Stradivari, and owned and played since 1974 by Mstislav Rostropovich.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mstislav-Rostropovich (1850 words)

	Legendary cellist to conduct, play with Symphony - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Rostropovich
		Rostropovich has been a prominent public figure quite apart from the professional activities that led the London Times to call him "the world’s greatest musician" last March when he turned 75 and his nickname to be "Slava" (Russian for "glory").
		Rostropovich was born in 1927 and began music studies at an early age.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_114337.html (1600 words)

	Music under Soviet rule: Yakubov summary
		Rostropovich holds that Shostakovich resisted this tyranny by "describing, in a musical language that could be understood without an interpreter, the entire history of the Soviet Union and Russia".
		Rostropovich dismisses what he calls the "rubbish" in Testimony to the effect that Shostakovich was critical of aspects of Prokofiev's life and works.
		Rostropovich adds: "Shostakovich once even stated in an interview that the impulse for writing his First Cello Concerto sprang from Prokoviev's Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra.
	www.siue.edu /~aho/musov/yak/yak.html (2659 words)

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