Talk:Mstislav Rostropovich
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Someeone's vandalized the page. Can someone revert?
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- Done Alex Bakharev 15:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
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- And reverted. Please see the ITN criteria. —David Levy 15:07, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
- Please feel free to discuss at Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates. --PFHLai 15:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
- And reverted. Please see the ITN criteria. —David Levy 15:07, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
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"He performed every work for cello that has ever been written" This is somewhat ridiculous and impossible suggestion. He certainly played many, perhaps most, but to say that he performed (not even just played) every work for cello that has ever been written is certainly not true.
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[edit] Was he born in Azerbaijan or the USSR?
The introduction to the article USSR should settle it.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics…more commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was often incorrectly, and sometimes intentionally, referred to as Russia, its largest and dominant constituent state. From 1945 until its dissolution in 1991 — a period known as the Cold War—the Soviet Union and the United States of America were the two world superpowers that dominated the global agenda of the communist and capitalist worlds respectively, foreign affairs, military operations, geopolitics, ideological thought, and scientific advancement. The USSR was born and expanded as a union of Soviet republics formed within the territory of the Russian Empire abolished by the Russian Revolution of 1917 followed by the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921. The geographic boundaries of the Soviet Union varied with time, but after the last major territorial annexations of the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and certain other territories during World War II, from 1945 until dissolution the boundaries approximately corresponded to those of late Imperial Russia, with the notable exclusions of Poland and Finland. The Soviet Union became the primary model for future Communist states during the Cold War; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR grew to contain 15 constituent or "union republics" by 1956: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kyrgyz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR.[1] The republics were part of a highly centralized federal union that was dominated by the Russian SFSR.
— $PЯINGrαgђ 23:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rostropovich was not Jewish
- The Jewish Chronicle (London) of 4 May 2007 carries an interview on page eight with the impresarios Victor and Lilian Hochhauser, in whose London home the Rostropovich family took refuge for a year after leaving the Soviet Union. Victor Hochhauser describes Rostropovich as "the greatest friend of the Jewish people that I knew." The Chronicle then goes on to say that "so marked was his attention to Jewish causes, Mr. Hochhauser said, that many people had thought he was Jewish." Jinfo 03:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- He was buried with a cross on his coffin, as well as having the wake at a church. Jews don't do that. Czaikowski 12:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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- I suggest to change that intorductory sentence in bio and mention that he "was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, then part of USSR", because he was born in this admintrative unit of USSR, not a region or province of USSR. Azerbaijan SSR was a legal entity in itself. Secondly, the source of how many years he lived in Baku needs to be verified, because if I remember reading it correcty, his family moved out of Baku, when he was 6 or 7 years old. Regarding his ethnic origins, he of course was of Jewish, Polish and Slavic desent, but he was buried with Orthodox Russian traditions, because he claimed and presented himself being part of this culture, i.e. Russian or ex-Soviet. --Ulvi I. 18:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
So, was he Jewish? From his mother's side? No from the father's, because Rostropovich's father was from Polish nobility... Kowalmistrz 21:42, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ethnicity
Just to clear things up, Rostropovich was not Jewish in whole or in part. I've looked at the reference links, they are wrong and I'm not sure how or where they got that info. Rostropovich's genealogy is well known, his mother, Sofja Nikolayevna Fedotova was an ethnic Russian[1][2] his father was indeed descended from a minor Polish noble (Szlachta) family, more precisely however they were ethnic Belarusians (Rostropovich's father specifically had both Belarusian and Russian ancestors). The name Rostropovich is in fact an ethnic Belarusian name[3]. Above all Rostropovich himself was Russian Orthodox and clearly thought of himself as an ethnic Russian. So unless anyone has any other information or any objections I'm going to change the article.
Just FYI, nothing to do with the Rostropovich family or name, before WWII only Minsk, now capital of Belorus, had more Jewish population than entire territory of France. --Aynabend 10:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 00:08, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Multiple Instances of Composers
There are three different points in the article where composers are mentioned, who composed for Rostropovich. I believe they should be integrated. I will try to do so. If someone disagrees with what I've done, they can revert without second thoughts.--Atavi (talk) 18:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
