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Piatigorsky

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[pyah-ti-gawr-skee, pyat-i-] / ˌpjɑ tɪˈgɔr ski, ˌpjæt ɪ- /

noun

  1. Gregor 1903–76, U.S. cellist, born in Russia.


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He visited a final time in 1970 for a five-week tour with the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2023

Christopher Isherwood was in the neighborhood, along with theater director Max Reinhardt and Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2022

As a teenager, he accompanied and conducted the orchestra for master classes by the legendary cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and violinist Jascha Heifetz, and Piatigorsky asked him to learn Rachmaninoff’s cello sonata.

From Washington Post Dec. 5, 2019

That same day, Laurence Lesser, a Piatigorsky pupil who serves as the cello sage at the New England Conservatory, advised Annie Jacobs-Perkins, another Kirshbaum protégée, on Martinů’s Second Sonata.

From The New Yorker May 30, 2016

At the closing ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Piatigorsky posed for a photograph with Spassky on one side and Fischer on the other.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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