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Playing until her fingers bled: the dedication of the pianist Maria Yudina | The Spectator

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Elizabeth Wilson celebrates the great Russian musician who never owned her own piano and gave her earnings to the poor

issue 19 February 2022 Text settings Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Share Share Michael Tanner Playing until her fingers bled: the dedication of the pianist Maria Yudina Copy link Copied Linkedin Messenger Email Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia Elizabeth Wilson Yale University Press, pp. 352, £25 The 20th century was an amazing time for Russian pianists, and the worse things got, politically and militarily, the more great pianists thrived, despite the extreme danger and discomfort in which they lived and in whi

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