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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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At USC he was the pianist and conductor in Piatigorsky and Heifetz’s master classes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

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

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2023

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

A few years prior, Mrs. Piatigorsky had been criticized in some quarters for not acceding to Fischer’s demands for the 1963 tournament, which had led to his not playing.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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