Sviatoslav Richter
Subtitle: pianist
By: Karl Aage Rasmussen ; translated by Russell Dees
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hanover [N.H.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781555537104
Work titles: Svjatoslav Richter
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (P. [285]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Letting the music speak; title: Images and chimeras; title: "A different kind of boy"; title: Odessa : the light and the dark; title: "I have had three teachers : my father, Wagner, and Heinrich Neuhaus"; title: Moscow; title: World War II from the sidelines; title: Nina Lvovna; title: Prokofiev; title: Music, power, and musical politics; title: Shostakovich; title: The heartbreak; title: Pianist on the world stage; title: The nomad; title: Piano, pianist, music, and audience; title: The man behind invisible walls; title: Perestroika and glasnost; title: The final years; title: The end; title: Postlude; title: The musical legacy.