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Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy ((ロシア語:Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи), ''Vladimir Davidovič Aškenazi''; born July 6, 1937) is a Russian-born pianist and conductor of Icelandic and Swiss citizenship. == Life == Ashkenazy was born in Gorky, Soviet Union (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), to the pianist and composer David Ashkenazi and to the actress Yevstolia Grigorievna, born Plotnova. His father was Jewish and his mother was the daughter of a family of Russian Orthodox peasants.〔(Ashkenazy – Still Russian to the core ), The Independent, 3 October 2008 (retrieved 23 October 2008)〕〔(Iceland Review Online: Daily News from Iceland, Current Affairs, Business, Politics, Sports, Culture ). Icelandreview.com (2005-12-06). Retrieved on 2013-08-02.〕〔(Ashkenazy, Vladimir ). Enotes.com. Retrieved on 2013-10-29.〕 He began playing piano at the age of six. He was accepted to the Central Music School at age eight studying with Anaida Sumbatyan. Ashkenazy attended the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Lev Oborin and Boris Zemliansky. He won second prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955 and the first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 1956. He shared the first prize in the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition with British pianist John Ogdon. As a student, like many in that period, he was harassed by the KGB to become an "informer". He did not really cooperate, despite pressures from the authorities. In 1961 he married the Iceland-born Þórunn Jóhannsdóttir, who studied piano at the Moscow Conservatoire.〔 To marry Ashkenazy, Þórunn was forced to give up her Icelandic citizenship and declare that she wanted to live in the USSR. (Her name is usually transliterated as Thorunn and her nickname was Dódý.〔http://www.britishpathe.com/video/russian-pianist-vladimir-ashkenazy-interviewed/query/Hotel〕 She recorded as Dódý Ashkenazy.〔https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rachmaninov-transcriptions/id121716932〕) After numerous bureaucratic procedures, the Soviet authorities several times agreed to the Ashkenazys going to the West for musical performances and for visits to his parents-in-law with their first grandson. In his memoirs, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev recollects that Ashkenazy had married an Englishwoman () and on a visit to London refused to go back to the Soviet Union. Khrushchev mentions that Ashkenazy then went to the Soviet Embassy in London and asked what to do, who in turn referred the matter to Moscow. Khrushchev claims to have been of the opinion that to require Ashkenazy to return to the USSR would have made him an 'Anti-Soviet'. He further claims that this was a good example of an artist being able to come and go in and out of the USSR freely, which Ashkenazy himself said was a gross "distortion of the truth." .〔Khrushchev Remembers, London 1971 p. 521〕 In 1963 Ashkenazy decided to leave the USSR permanently, establishing residence in London where his wife's parents lived. The couple moved to Iceland in 1968 where, in 1972, Ashkenazy became an Icelandic citizen.〔(Vladimir Ashkenazy ). Encyclopædia Britannica.〕 In 1970 he helped to found the Reykjavík Arts Festival, of which he remains Honorary President.〔(Reykjavík Arts Festival )〕〔(European Festivals Association ). Efa-aef.eu. Retrieved on 2013-10-29.〕 In 1978 the couple and their five children (Vladimir Stefan, Nadia Liza, Dimitri Thor, Sonia Edda, and Alexandra Inga) moved to Meggen, Switzerland, however he is currently residing in the small village of Pura in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.〔Interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy as published by the Basler Zeitung (03.03.2015): http://bazonline.ch/leben/gesellschaft/Es-ist-schwer-die-Sowjetunion-zu-vermissen/story/12490064〕 His eldest son Vladimir, nicknamed 'Vovka', is a pianist and his second son Dimitri is a clarinetist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vladimir Ashkenazy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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