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Cliburn

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Cli·burn  (klbrn), Van Born 1934.
American pianist who was the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Prize (1958).


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When some American would actually beat the Russians in an elitist competition--concert pianist Van Cliburn, chess master Bobby Fischer--Americans would celebrate them as national heroes.
By the time he and Nureyev met in 1963, Hurok had been booking the best in the business for more than half a century, Melba and Chaliapin; Pavlova, Duncan, and Mary Wigman; Andres Segovia, Artur Rubenstein, Van Cliburn, and Marian Anderson.
His subjects included Arthur Rubinstein, Alexander Brailowsky, Rudolph Firkusny, Van Cliburn and Vladimir Horowitz.
 
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