Rostropovich

American  

[ros-truh-poh-vich, ruh-struh-paw-vyich] / ˌrɒs trəˈpoʊ vɪtʃ, rʌ strəˈpɔ vyɪtʃ /

noun

1. Mstislav (Leopoldovich) 1927–2007, Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (husband ofGalina Vishnevskaya ), born in Soviet Azerbaijan: settled in the United States 1974, music director of the U.S. National Symphony Orchestra 1977–94.

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Rostropovich British  

/ ˌrɒstrəˈpəʊvɪtʃ, rəstraˈpɔvitʃ /

noun

1. Mstislav Leopoldovich (ˈmɪstɪslɑːv; Russian mstiˈslaf leaˈpɔldavitʃ). 1927–2007, Soviet cellist, composer, and conductor; became a US citizen in 1978 after losing Soviet citizenship (restored in 1990)

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Example Sentences

One of the greatest recordings of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, his grab-you-by-the-gut answer to Stalin and celebration of Russia, is by the National Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovich, recorded in 1994 at the Kennedy Center.

From Los Angeles Times

Rostropovich exuded, in the Kennedy Center aura, the expression of an overwhelmingly triumphant celebration of the end of the Soviet repression.

From Los Angeles Times

Among those judged unworthy of Soviet citizenship were the writers Vasily Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, the musicians Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, theater director Yuri Lyubimov, and physicist and human rights advocate Yuri Orlov.

From Washington Post

After 1991, many of the former “noncitizens” — including Solzhenitsyn, Rostropovich and Lyubimov — returned to Russia.

From Washington Post

The Sinfonia Concertante has never quite found a home in the repertory, though Prokofiev revised it extensively for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich.

From New York Times