Death of a Tchaikovsky winner

Death of a Tchaikovsky winner

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norman lebrecht

May 21, 2017

The superb cellist Natalia Shakhovskaya, first winner of the cello section of the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962, has died in Moscow at the age of 81.

A student of Mstislav Rostropovich, she taught at the Moscow Conservatoire from 1974 and at the Queen Sofía School of Music in Madrid from 1994.

Comments

  • MacroV says:

    And if I’m not mistaken, the people who finished behind her in that competition included Leslie Parnas, Natalia Gutman, and Lynn Harrell. Beautiful playing in the video.

  • Mischa Maisky says:

    Very sad news…
    RIP

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