April 27, 2007 • Mstislav Rostropovich left his mark both on the world of classical music and the musicians he played with. Music commentator Miles Hoffman played under Rostropovich for seven years.

He remained loyal to the composers Prokofiev and Shostakovich, when they fell out of favour with the Soviet authorities, and went into exile from the Soviet Union in 1974 after his refusal to ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist, conductor and pianist whose death aged 80 was announced yesterday, was generally regarded as the greatest, and was certainly the most famous, cellist since ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday.

MOSCOW — Mstislav Rostropovich played the cello with grace and verve — and lived his life offstage the same way. His death at age 80 takes away one of modern Russia's most compelling figures, admired ...

Mstislav Rostropovich was born into a musical family in the then-Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in 1927. Young "Slava", as he was called, began playing the piano with his mother at age four.

One of these few is Mstislav Rostropovich, the great Russian cellist who, through his amazing playing and his irresistible powers of persuasion, managed to wring out major works for cello from an ...

Mstislav Rostropovich shares his memories Gramophone Thursday, January 1, 2015 Mstislav Rostropovich shares his memories with Tully Potter (from the April 2007 issue of Gramophone) Mstislav ...