Elisabeth Leonskaja
...you feel both his simplicity and his greatness...
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excerpt from an interview by M.Isacescu (2009)
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Your musical development was influenced by your meeting with the great pianist Sviatoslav Richter. What exactly impressed you about this musician's personality?
"On the one hand, it is easy to put into words; on the other hand, it is practically impossible to do that. When you are a young artist who is about to build a strong career, very self-confident, but at the same time you have complexes because you realize that you can do nothing for the time being, and suddenly you have the chance to be, for a long period of time, next to such a great master, and you feel both his simplicity and his greatness, you picture new ways of how everything should be done".
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