Van Cliburn
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title:
Van Cliburn
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Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War. Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students, and arranged for him to start taking lessons. Cliburn developed a rich, round tone and a singing-voice-like phrasing, having been taught
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American pianist (1934–2013)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Cliburn
date created:
2004-03-17T17:54:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T07:31:15Z
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