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There is a riveting scene in Bruno Monsaingeon’s documentary film about Sviatoslav Richter in which the world-famous pianist talked about performing at Stalin’s funeral in 1953. Abruptly summoned back to Moscow, Richter was whisked from the airport to play by the Soviet leader’s open coffin.
He complained that he had to stuff a score under the piano’s pedals to make them work…
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