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Van Cliburn (b. Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., July 12, 1934), is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.
Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and began taking piano lessons at the age of three from his mother, Rildia Bee O’Bryan (who had been taught by Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt). When Cliburn was six, he and his family moved to Kilgore, T ...
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克莱本一生充满了传奇式的浪漫色彩。1958年参加莫斯科柴科夫斯基国际钢琴比赛,荣获一等奖,蜚声国际乐坛。因为他是在苏联发射第一颗人造卫星后第一个美国人在苏联获得如此巨大的成就,因而成为美国的宠儿,在他回到纽约时,像凯旋归来的英雄一样受到市民的夹道欢迎和总统接见。克莱本在青年时期就掌握了扎实的演奏技巧,具有简朴热情的演奏风格,在他演奏的黄金时期,有着高妙无暇的技术、如诉如歌的音色和出神入化的音乐表现力,擅长演奏浪漫派的作品。而遗憾的是,到60年代中期他的演奏没有进一步的发展和提高,失去了新鲜感,往往单凭直觉而又矫揉造作,声音也变得粗糙,以至他的本人的演奏,似乎只是昙花一现已成了历史陈迹。1962年在德克萨斯州沃恩堡创立了以他名字命名的克莱恩国际钢琴比赛。