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Mischa Maisky started learning the cello in age eight. An greatly talented college student, he joined the Riga Conservatory. Discouraged from the rigid curriculum, nevertheless, he relocated to Leningrad in 1965. He not merely received the Soviet Union’s nationwide cello competition, but also experienced an acclaimed debut using the Leningrad …

Eduard Erdmann was a Latvian-born German pianist and composer whose most significant successes occurred in the period from the Weimar Republic. Essentially a modernist, Erdmann’s music can be similar to Alban Berg as well as the even more progressive post-Romantic strategy within Gustav Mahler’s past due symphonies. Nevertheless, Erdmann didn’t …