Vandaag is het precies honderd jaar geleden dat de Oekraïnse pianovirtuoos Svjatoslav Richter werd geboren. His father was a German expatriate pianist, while his mother, Anna Pavlovna, was from a landowning Russian family, and at one point had been a pupil of her future husband. In 1918, when Richter’s parents were in Odessa, the Civil […]
