Andrei gavrilov autobiography

Gavrilov's book captures the most meaningful episodes of his life.
In 2013 he completed writing his three volume autobiography, the first volume of which was published in Russian and German in March and April 2014, and in.
Andrei Gavrilov was a teenage superstar with the world at his feet.

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Andrei Gavrilov was born in Moscow in 1955 in an artistic family. His father Vladimir Gavrilov was a well known Russian artist, while his mother was a prominent pianist of the school of Heinrich Neuhaus. After being taught piano by his mother, Gavrilov graduated from Central Music School at Moscow State Conservatory in 1973 with Professor Tatiana Kestner. Later in the same year, he entered Moscow Conservatory where he studied in the class of Professor Lev Naumov.

In 1974, at the age of 18, Andrei Gavrilov won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition and in the same year made a triumphant international debut at the Salzburg Festival when he was substituting for Sviatoslav Richter. Since then he has enjoyed an imp

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Russian pianist on his life with the KGB

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norman lebrecht

November 30, 2011

The memoirs of Andrei Gavrilov started to appear in the Russian press today.

Gavrilov, winner of the 1974 Tchaikovsky competition, was later overheard making critical remarks about Soviet leaders. His passport was confiscated in 1979, his telephone cut off and he was confined to a psychiatric hospital, then to house arrest. He was finally allowed to leave the country by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

An extract can be read here in Russian. For the benefit of his Facebook friends, Andrei is providing summaries in English. Here’s an extract:

ANDREI, FIRA AND PITCH
(scenes from a musician’s life)

“Instead of a Foreword”

Andrei, Fira and Pitch deals with my life in the Soviet Union. It tells of the period between my graduating from the Central Music School in Moscow and my move to the West (1973-1985). It is the story of a young pianist who was sent by the Party and the government to lose the International Tchaikovsky Competition, but who won it. It recounts how the care

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