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Gregor Piatigorsky
About the Book
Forced to provide for his family from the age of 8 and thrown out of his home into a bitter Moscow winter at age 12, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky began his career as an archetypal struggling artist, using secondhand and borrowed instruments. When the October Revolution forced his escape to Warsaw, he enjoyed initial success with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Relocating to Berlin a few months later, he again struggled in poverty before eventually emerging as solo cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic. Settling in the United States during World II, Piatigorsky continued a brilliant career that cemented his place as one of the twentieth century’s greatest musicians. This all-embracing chronicle of Piatigorsky’s tempestuous life and career finally reveals the full life story of a musical legend.
About the Author(s)
A Grammy-nominated cellist who studied under Piatigorsky, Terry King teaches at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford an
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A BOOK AND A CELLO |
I had heard of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky when inom was ung, but like other famous musicians of the era (Vladimir Horowitz and Jascha Heifetz), Piatigorsky was a celebrity, fjärrstyrd and distant. My impressions changed when my husband Harry took me visit his childhood home in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York.
"That's where the famous Russian Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky lived" He pointed to Windy Cliff, the historisk period castle high on a mountainside across the road from the farm where he had grown up. "I remember swimming with Piatigorsky and his children in the river."
I immediately wanted to know more, so he told me about his playmates and neighbors. Violinist Michael Rabin spent the summers down the street and violin pedagogue Ivan Galamian and his Meadowmount School of Music were nearby. Piano virtuoso Willie Kapell rented the Piatigorsky cottage, and Harry's mother rented rooms and cabins to students who studied wit
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Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career of the Virtuoso Cellist
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