Van Cliburn
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Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when in 1958 he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
Cliburn in 1966
Cliburn with his mother in the Netherlands in 1966
Photograph of First Lady Betty Ford, Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Great Britain, Happy Rockefeller, Cary Grant, Eileen Mehle, Van Cliburn, Mrs. Winston Guest, Danny Kaye, Margaret Truman Daniel, and British Secretary of State James Callaghan Seated in the State Dining Room during a State Dinner Honoring Prime Minister Wilson
With Galina Vishnevskaya in Moscow, 18 June 1998
Arthur Friedheim
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Arthur Friedheim was a Russian-born concert pianist and composer who was one of Franz Liszt's foremost pupils. One of Friedheim's students was Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn, the mother of 20th-century pi
Van Cliburn
…son of Rildia Bee (née O'Bryan) and Harvey Lavan Cliburn Sr. When he was three, he began taking piano lessons from his mother, who had studied under Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt. When Cliburn was six, his father, who worked in the oil industry, moved the family to Kilgore, Texas. At 12, Cliburn won a…
Friedheim in 1912