Mstislav Rostropovich: advisors and students

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor1927 to 2007

Wikidata names Dmitri Shostakovich and Vissarion Shebalin as teachers and lists 10 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Teachers and mentors2

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Dmitri Shostakovich
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Vissarion Shebalin

Taught10

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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born 1944
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Jacqueline du Pré
born 1945
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Philippe Muller
born 1946
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Mischa Maisky
born 1948
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Maria Kliegel
born 1952
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Aleksandr Titov
born 1954
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
born 1961
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Yukio Yokoyama
born 1971
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Eunju Park
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Renato Ripo

Education and career3

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Moscow Conservatory
studied
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Gnessin Russian Academy of Music
studied
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Moscow Conservatory
worked

At a glance

known as: composer, conductor, music educator, cellist, pianist, editor, music arranger
awards: Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, 1951, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, People's Artist of the USSR, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1987, Order of Francisco de Miranda, commander of the Order of the Dannebrog, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class, Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, 1997, Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech, 1992, Praemium Imperiale, 1993, Léonie Sonning Music Prize, 1981, Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1997, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Medal "Defender of a Free Russia", Grand Officer of the National Order of the Cedar, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary, Commander of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Commander of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Commander of the Order of Saint-Charles, Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, 1970, Litteris et Artibus, 1984, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Lenin Prize, Kennedy Center Honors, Catalonia International Prize, 1992, Wolf Prize in Arts, 2004, honorary doctorate at the Laval University, 1983, honorary doctorate of Haifa University, honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Order of the Liberator General San Martín, Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 1976, Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, honorary doctor of the Chopin University of Music, Heydar Aliyev Order, 2007, Independence Order, 2002, Shohrat Order, 1997, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", honorary citizen of Vilnius, 2000, honorary citizenship, 1993, Ditson Conductor's Award, doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University, 1994, Classic Brit Awards
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Académie des beaux-arts
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