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Mstislav Rostropovich turns 80 · 2007-03-27 18:43
Famous cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich celebrates his the 80th birthday.
The Moscow Conservatory orginised a Rostropovich birthday concert on Monday with artists including the violinist Maxim Vengerov and the Borodin Quartet. News reports suggested it was unlikely Rostropovich would attend, Kommersant reported.
Mstislav Rostropovich was hospitalized in February. According to some Russian newspapers, he is in the country"s leading cancer clinic.
Rostropovich went into exile from the Soviet Union with his family in 1974 after housing dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn for four years. The cellist and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, eventually lost their Soviet citizenship.
Rostropovich developed close musical relationships with three of the 20th century"s leading composers ??” Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, his teacher. He commissioned dozens of works for cello from them and others.
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