Word: rostropovich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rostropovich learned piano from his mother and cello from his father. He composed his first piece at age four...
Harvard today awarded honorary doctorates to two women and five men, including MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner, novelist Ralph Ellison, world renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and opera star Beverly Sills...
...Rostropovich, who received a Doctor of Music, is one of the Soviet Union's leading cellists, and is regarded by many music critics to be the late Pablo Casals's heir to the title of foremost cellist of modern time...
...destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano," Rostropovich has said. "But this cannot be until there are more and great new works for the cello." Thus he has inspired composers such as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Miaskovsky, Kabalevsky, Piston and Britten to write repeatedly...
...Mstislav Rostropovich, world-renowned Russian cellist, a Doctor of Music...