Mstislav Rostropovich Death Cause and Date

Mstislav Rostropovich's Death

Born (Birthday) March 27, 1927

Death Date April 27, 2007

Age of Death 80 years

Cause of Death N/A

Profession Cellist

The cellist Mstislav Rostropovich died at the age of 80. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

One of the most respected cellists of his era, this Soviet musician received three International Music Awards and one Stalin Prize during the late 1940s and early 1950s. He performed the works of Shostakovich, and numerous other prominent cellists.

His marriage to Russian opera star Galina Vishnevskaya resulted in two children: Elena and Olga.

MOSCOW — 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. He was 80. Rostropovich died in a Moscow cancer hospital, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

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The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

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It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

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Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

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Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it’s still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

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Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots – Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

Mstislav Rostropovich Death Cause and Date