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Van Cliburn: An American Wins in Russia | Haenssler Profil PH18080

Van Cliburn: An American Wins in Russia

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Label: Haenssler Profil

Cat No: PH18080

Barcode: 0881488180800

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 1st February 2019

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About

Van Cliburn (1934–2013) was the first American contestant ever to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and he did it in 1958 – right in the middle of the “Cold War”. His victory caused a sensation; the twenty-four-year-old was celebrated like a modern-day pop star. The recording he subsequently made in New York of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto op.23 remains to this day one of the best-selling records in the history of classical music.

Van Cliburn retired almost entirely from active concert life in 1978 and died in 2013 of bone-marrow cancer. He was born Harvey Lavan, Jr. in the state of Louisiana and received his piano training up to the age of 17 from his mother, a pianist who had learnt from the great Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Liszt. He won numerous competitions both as a child and as an adolescent, and after winning first prize at the National Musical Festival in New York´s Carnegie Hall he initially continued his studies at the Juilliard School of Music. His breakthrough came with his overwheming triumph in Moscow.

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