Sviatoslav Richter - Wikipedia
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter [note 1] (March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. He is regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, [1] [2] [3] [4] and has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire". [5]
Sviatoslav Richter | Classical Pianist, Soviet Union, 20th Century ...
Sviatoslav Richter (born March 7 [March 20, New Style], 1915, Zhitomir, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Zhytomyr, Ukraine]—died Aug. 1, 1997, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet pianist whose technical virtuosity, combined with subtle introspection, made him one of the preeminent pianists of the 20th century.
Sviatoslav Richter: The Pianist Who Made The Earth Move
Mar 19, 2015 · Richter played the late sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert in a manner that had the force of prophesy. And his interpretations of Russian music beggared description.
Opinion | The Pianist and the Lobster - The New York Times
Jun 21, 2019 · The pianist is Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, who died in 1997 but whose legacy of recordings is still unrivaled. He was the opposite of Glenn Gould, who abandoned live concerts at the age of...
Sviatoslav Richter: The Pianist and the Person - Toccata Classics
Where did such an extraordinarily vivid and contradictory mix of talents and characteristics come from and how could they have amalgamated to form the personality that was Sviatoslav Richter?
Obituary: Sviatoslav Richter - The Independent
Sviatoslav Richter was a connoisseur's pianist, a supreme lyric poet of the keyboard for whom the piano was an extension of his own body and mind and a means to musical thought that was...
Sviatoslav Richter, Enigmatic Pianist, Playing With Contradictions ...
Sep 24, 2015 · Notably missing was the towering pianist Sviatoslav Richter, an artist of, in the best sense, demonic powers, whose performances combined stunning technique, myriad colorings and fierce...
Sviatoslav Richter - Discogs
(March 20, 1915 – August 1, 1997) Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Russian: Святослав Теофилович Рихтер, born in (Zhytomyr, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Soviet pianist and widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
Sviatoslav Richter - Artist | Gramophone
Sviatoslav Richter One of the greatest pianists of all time, the Russian Richter was admired equally by his peers, his public and by the critics. His repertoire was wide and his technique astounding.
Sviatoslav Richter, 1915-1997 - The New Criterion
The Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter died in his dacha outside Moscow on August 1, 1997. No one could ever have thought of this peerless artist as a dissident within his own country in the manner of Solzhenitsyn or Mstislav Rostropovich.