Svyatoslav Teofilowitsch was born the son of a German composer and a Russian nobleman. His father was to be his first music teacher. At the age of ten he played the "Nocturnes" by Chopin. Five years later he was thanks to his phenomenal memory and his ability to sight read, will do as a piano accompanist at the Philharmonic Theatre of Odessa. At the age of 19 he already accompanied musicians at the Opera in Odessa. Not until the age of 22 the young artist decided to musical training. The audience he was already a household name. Richter traveled to Moscow to study at the Philharmonie with Heinrich Neuhaus piano. Neuhaus later recalled Judge impressive entrance examination: "A man who had enjoyed no musical training, it had taken it into his head to study at the conservatory I followed with interest his courageous performance he played very controlled, I would almost say!. easily and accurately appreciably. His performance moved me immediately. one of my pupils I whispered that he was a brilliant musician in my opinion. " Sviatoslav Richter was finally admitted to the Moscow Conservatory. He found it hard to meet the requirements, because at the conservatory, it was not just about music. And just as judges had refused as a child that practicing his opinion superfluous scales, he did not see now a to learn the history of communism, because really had nothing for him to do with music. Neuhaus therefore had to be used every time anew for its talented students. Three times threatened judges exmatriculation. But he graduated. Richter remained throughout his life a free spirit. He leaned promising invitations from, changed short his concert program or realized crazy ideas. At the age of 70 years he went to the example still on a concert tour from Vladivostok to Moscow and played in small towns. Or he just wanted to play in the dark in order to "decouple from all thoughts and be able to give the audience the opportunity to fully concentrate on the music rather than the musician". In his last piano concertos he put these plans into action, only a faint light fell on the artist. The audience could concentrate on judge ingenious skill. Sviatoslav Richter Teofilovich was born in Zhytomyr / Ukraine / Russian Tsarist empire, has died in Moscow / Russia and was buried in Moscow / Russia.

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