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.

Mstislav Rostropovich was regarded as the greatest cellist since Pablo Casals. He was born in 1927 in Baku, by the Caspian Sea, with music in his blood. His mother was a pianist and his father a ...

Internationally renowned cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, died Friday, April 27 in Moscow at age 80. The great cellist spent much of his life in the United States after he was ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 with Tully Potter (from the April 2007 issue of Gramophone) Mstislav Rostropovich (photo: Sasha Gusov/EMI Classics) Register now to continue reading Thanks ...