When it was time to announce the winner, the judges were obliged to ask permission of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to give first prize to an American. After the ovation, Van Cliburn made a brief speech in Russian, and then resumed his seat at the piano and began to play-to the surprise and delight of the Russian musicians visible behind him in the film made of his part in the competition-his own piano arrangement of the much-beloved song "Moscow Nights," which, as the response shows, further endeared him to the Russians. 3 on April 13 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes. Cliburn's performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. The first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 was an event designed to demonstrate Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, after the USSR's technological victory with the Sputnik launch in October 1957. His triumph in Moscow propelled Cliburn to international prominence. At age 20, Cliburn won the Leventritt Award, and made his Carnegie Hall debut. He entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and studied under Rosina Lhévinne, who trained him in the tradition of the great Russian romanticists. When Cliburn was six, he and his family moved to Kilgore, Texas, and at twelve he won a statewide piano competition which enabled him to debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., JFebruary 27, 2013), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.Ĭliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and began taking piano lessons at the age of three from his mother, Rildia Bee O'Bryan (who had been taught by Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt). Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., JFebruary 27, 2013), is… Read Full Bio ↴ Van Cliburn (b.
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