"He didn't fit the evil image of capitalists that had been painted for us by the Soviet government."Ĭliburn won the International Tchaikovsky Competition, against all odds and expectations, and came home to a ticker-tape parade, like a triumphant general. "Van looked and played like some kind of angel," the Russian pianist Andrei Gavrilov told a Cliburn biographer. When he sat down to play, Russians saw a tall, 23-year-old Texan, rail thin and tousle-haired, with great, gangly fingers that grew evocative and eloquent when he played the music of the true Russian masters - Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Borodin.Ĭliburn died Wednesday at his home in Fort Worth, Texas. He went to Moscow in 1958 for the first International Tchaikovsky Competition.
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