I have been listening to recordings of him playing the Duport Stradivarius cello all day.
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich [Мстислав Леопольдович Ростропович] was a student of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, a cellist, composer, conductor, and political activist. He was born in the oil town of Baku on the Caspian Sea in what is now Azerbaijan and became a musical phenomenon.
The BBC has his obituary.
He taught his cello to sing.
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