The piano that, in its normal state, was fine for the brilliant Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev concertos did not suit the Schumann.

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Amazingly enough, he even ranks ahead of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Richard Strauss.

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You know, it's not only Rachmaninoff that asks you to play loud.

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My opening concert of that tour, in Moscow, consisted of three concertos: Prokofiev's Third, Rachmaninoff's First and the only one Schumann ever wrote.

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When playing octaves and difficult technical passages in big virtuoso works like those of Liszt, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, Horowitz could sound almost superhuman.

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That's maybe the biggest difference between playing Brahms and Rachmaninoff.

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And nowadays, you can go in the Internet and pull off Rachmaninoff and Joan Baez and Sheryl Crow and, you know, U2 and do listen to all the kinds of music that are possible.

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Praised for introducing Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff to a younger generation when he became well-known, Cliburn also helped nurture the careers of younger musicians through the Van Cliburn International Music Competition, which was set up in 1962 and occurs once every four years.

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