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Aug 2, 1997 · The Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, one of the most acclaimed keyboard artists of the 20th century, died yesterday in a Moscow hospital. He was 82. The cause was a heart attack, the Russian...
Sep 24, 2015 · Notably missing was the towering pianist Sviatoslav Richter, an artist of, in the best sense, demonic powers, whose performances combined stunning technique, myriad colorings and fierce...
Jun 21, 2019 · The pianist is Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, who died in 1997 but whose legacy of recordings is still unrivaled. He was the opposite of Glenn Gould, who abandoned live concerts at the age...
Sviatoslav Richter: The Pianist and the Person. Posted by Anthony Phillips. · 22 January 2016. Britten and Richter rehearsing Britten’s Piano concerto, a nervous Anthony Phillips turning pages. In the autumn of 1959 I was beginning my final year at Oxford. A friend called David Tempest, like me a piano nut, asked me to come round and listen ...
Mar 9, 2021 · The headlines of the tributes following Sviatoslav Richter's death in 1997, aged 82, say it all: 'Music's lyric genius'; 'The pianist who made the earth move'; 'The pianist of the century'.
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May 29, 2018 · Born: Zhitomir, Ukraine, 20 March 1915; died Moscow, Russia, 1 August 1997. Genre: Classical. Sviatoslav Richter was one of the greatest Russian pianists of the twentieth century, and his death in 1997 at the age of eighty-two marked the end of an era of virtuoso pianists.
Mar 19, 2015 · Sviatoslav Richter: The Pianist Who Made The Earth Move. March 19, 2015 • For the centennial of the great Russian's birth, critic and piano maven Steve Wigler recalls a herculean talent who ...
