Goodbye Russia - Fiona Maddocks

FABER & FABER 2023 FABER & FABER 384 Maddocks, Fiona (Classical Music Critic - Observer) Hardback

'Delightful . Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars - from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporaries and polar opposites, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.