Gleb Borisovich Axelrod (russian: Глеб Борисович Аксельрод; 11 October 1923 in
Moscow
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– 2 October 2003 in
Hannover
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; also spelled Gleb Akselrod) was a Russian pianist.
He was a disciple of
Grigory Ginzburg
Grigory Romanovich Ginzburg (russian: Григо́рий Рома́нович Ги́нзбург; 29 May 1904 in Nizhny Novgorod – 5 December 1961 in Moscow) was a Soviet pianist.
Biography
Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being a ...
. Axelrod won, ex-aequo with
Marina Slesaryeva, the II piano edition of the
Prague Spring Festival
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Competition (1951). In 1955, he obtained a 4th prize at the
Concours Long-Thibaud, and two years later he placed second at the inaugural
Vianna da Motta Competition. He subsequently held a professorship at the
Moscow Conservatory
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.
References
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Weapons of mass construction at Concours Long-Thibaud
* at
National University of Colombia
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Russian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Musicians from Moscow
1923 births
2003 deaths
Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century Russian male musicians
Soviet pianists
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