- Leonid Sagalov
Leonid Sagalov (born in
Kharkiv , 1910 - died inMoscow , 1940) was a Soviet pianist.His fine performance in the II Fryderik Chopin Competition, which earned him the 6th prize, paved the way for a concert career abroad, but he shortly afterwards settled back in Kharkiv, where he combined teaching in the city's Conservatory with a concert career along the Ukrainian SSR. Just a year after he was appointed a professor, the Nazi capture of Kharkiv forced him to flee to Moscow, where he died in unknown circumstances.
External links
* [http://en.chopin.nifc.pl/chopin/persons/text/cat/3/page/5/id/2824 Leonid Sagalov] at the Chopin Information Centre.
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