Editing Sviatoslav Richter (section)

==Repertoire==
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As Richter once put it, "My repertory runs to around eighty different programs, not counting chamber works."<ref>Monsaingeon, p. 143.</ref> His repertoire ranged from [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]] and [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] to [[Tchaikovsky]], [[Alexander Scriabin|Scriabin]], [[Karol Szymanowski|Szymanowski]], [[Alban Berg|Berg]], [[Anton Webern|Webern]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], [[Béla Bartók|Bartók]], [[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith]], [[Benjamin Britten|Britten]], and [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]].

Richter worked tirelessly to learn new pieces. For instance, in the late 1980s, he learned [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]'s [[Variations on a Theme of Paganini|Paganini]] and [[Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel|Handel]] Variations, and in the 1990s, several of [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]]'s [[Études (Debussy)|études]] and pieces by Gershwin, and works by Bach and Mozart that he had not previously included in his programs.

Central to his repertoire were the works of Schubert, [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]], Beethoven, J. S. Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev and Debussy.<ref name=pp383-406>Monsaingeon, pp. 383–406.</ref> He is said to have learned and memorized the second book of Bach's ''[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]'' in one month.<ref>Monsaingeon, p. 48</ref>

He gave the premiere of Prokofiev's [[Piano Sonata No. 7 (Prokofiev)|Sonata No. 7]], which he learned in four days, and [[Piano Sonata No. 9 (Prokofiev)|No. 9]], which Prokofiev dedicated to Richter. Apart from his solo career, he also performed [[chamber music]] with partners such as [[Mstislav Rostropovich]], [[Rudolf Barshai]], [[David Oistrakh]], [[Oleg Kagan]], [[Yuri Bashmet]], [[Natalia Gutman]], [[Zoltán Kocsis]], [[Elisabeth Leonskaja]], [[Benjamin Britten]] and members of the [[Borodin Quartet]]. Richter also often accompanied singers such as [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]], [[Peter Schreier]], [[Galina Pisarenko]] and his wife and long-time artistic companion [[Nina Dorliak]].<ref>Monsaingeon, p. 413.</ref>

Richter also [[conducting|conducted]] the premiere of Prokofiev's [[Symphony-Concerto (Prokofiev)|Symphony-Concerto]] for cello and orchestra. This was his sole appearance as a conductor. The soloist was Rostropovich, to whom the work was dedicated. Prokofiev also wrote his 1949 Cello Sonata in C for Rostropovich, and he and Richter premiered it in 1950. Richter himself was a passable cellist, and Rostropovich was a good pianist; at one concert in Moscow at which he accompanied Rostropovich on the piano, they exchanged instruments for part of the program.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}