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“When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on what the composer had in mind and what he knew about the composer. Many of the works that I played for him had in fact been composed and written for him; he was often the first performer of these works, having known the composers personally.”

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David Finckel, born on December 6, 1951, is an accomplished musical artist renowned for his contributions to the field of classical music, particularly in the realm of chamber music. more

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