Institute of Arts named after L.M. Rostropovich. Information about the institute

About the Orenburg State Institute of Arts named after Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich was created in April 1997 on the basis of a music school (organized in 1927), which has a rich history and musical traditions. In this oldest educational institution in Orenburg, during the Patriotic War, he first studied in his father’s class, and then the world famous musician Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich worked.
Since 1993, during the annual visits of M.L. Rostropovich in Orenburg, master classes, creative meetings, and charity concerts of the maestro were held. The Institute of Arts is the owner of an invaluable complete collection of CDs “Mstislav Rostropovich plays, conducts, accompanies.” During the next master class on September 1, 2003, Mstislav Leopoldovich presented the rector B.P. Khatorin as a gift to the institute with a violin by the modern Italian master Leonardo Rafaeliano, made in Cremona on July 25, 2003 according to the model of A. Stradivarius “Kreutzer-1727.”

The structure of the university includes a special children's music school, a music college, the institute itself and graduate school. The Orenburg university is one of the youngest in Russia, but its intensive development has made it possible to form bright creative groups that have already gained fame and recognition not only in the city and region, but also in the country and abroad: academic and folk choirs, an orchestra of folk instruments, chamber, brass and symphony orchestras, instrumental and vocal ensembles.
On the basis of the educational institution, various competitions and festivals of young musicians are traditionally held at both the regional, regional, all-Russian and international levels, many of which have received wide recognition, in particular the Russian Competition for Performers on Wind and Percussion Instruments, as well as the International Competition for Performers on Wind and Percussion Instruments. folk instruments among students of higher and secondary vocational educational institutions of culture and arts “Cup of the Southern Urals - Orenburg Mosaic”, held in the spring of 2005 and autumn of 2010. The annual festival-competition “Young Musicians of the Orenburg Region”, uniting talented musicians of the region, has been held since 1979. In recent years, more than 100 students of the Institute of Arts have become laureates of international, all-Russian, republican and regional competitions.

Music science is intensively developing at the Institute of Arts. In particular, the institute is the initiator of Russian and International scientific and practical conferences devoted to important problems of culture, art and education with the invitation of leading experts. University scientific and practical conferences, pedagogical readings, workshops, lectures and master classes by leading teachers of creative universities in Russia are held annually.
The institute has two faculties: music and humanities and creativity. The Institute trains performing musicians (piano, orchestral folk, orchestral winds and percussion, orchestral string instruments), vocalists (academic and folk singing), conductors, dramatic theater and film artists, musical theater artists, and library workers. In 2013, the institute successfully passed a comprehensive assessment of the activities of a state educational institution of higher education, was accredited and received a license for a period of 6 years. Scientific and creative relations with leading universities of culture and art in the region, Russia, near and far abroad, the media, and public organizations are fruitfully and actively developing.
The pride of the institute is a concert hall with unique acoustics, which regularly hosts concerts of classical and folk music. Teachers and students carry out active educational work, giving lectures and concerts in cities and districts of the Orenburg region. The Orenburg State Institute of Arts is one of the centers of cultural life of the city, region and Southern Urals.

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (March 27, 1927, Baku - April 27, 2007, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian cellist, pianist and conductor, public figure, defender of human rights and spiritual freedom, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1966). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1964), Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951) and two State Prizes of Russia (1991, 1995). Five-time Grammy Award winner.

Mstislav Rostropovich was born into a family of professional musicians - cellist Leopold Rostropovich, the son of pianist and composer Vitold Rostropovich, and pianist Sofia Fedotova, in Baku, where the family moved from Orenburg at the invitation of the Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

Rostropovich began studying music in early childhood with his parents.

In 1932-1937 he studied in Moscow at the Mussorgsky Music College.

In 1941, his family was evacuated to the city of Chkalov, where Mstislav studied at the music school where his father taught.

At the age of 16, he entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied cello with Semyon Kozolupov and composition with S. S. Prokofiev and D. D. Shostakovich.

Mstislav Rostropovich in childhood

He gained fame as a cellist in 1945, winning the gold medal at the Third All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians in Moscow.

Along with the 18-year-old Rostropovich, who withstood the most difficult competition and won his first victory, the pianist Svyatoslav Richter, who was already famous by that time, received the first prize at the competition of performing musicians.

In 1947 he won 1st prize at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Prague.

Thanks to international contracts and tours, Rostropovich became known in the West. He performed virtually the entire repertoire of cello music, and subsequently many works were written specifically for him. He performed for the first time 117 works for cello and gave 70 orchestral premieres. As a chamber musician he performed in an ensemble with Svyatoslav Richter, in a trio with Emil Gilels and Leonid Kogan, and as a pianist in an ensemble with his wife Galina Vishnevskaya.

By his own admission, three composers had a huge influence on the formation of his personality: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten.

In 1955, four days after meeting the famous opera singer G.P. Vishnevskaya at the Prague Spring festival, they actually became husband and wife. After returning from Prague, Vishnevskaya decisively broke up with her former husband, director of the Leningrad Operetta Theater M. I. Rubin and connected her life with the “man from the orchestra.”

Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya lived together for 52 years. The family settled in an apartment at the House of Composers on Gazetny Lane. Soon two daughters were born - Olga and Elena. According to the daughters' recollections, the father was a very strict, pedantic parent who was constantly involved in their upbringing.

Mstislav Rostropovich in Galina Vishnevskaya

Beginning in 1969, Rostropovich and his family supported him, allowing him to live at their dacha near Moscow and writing an open letter in his defense. This was followed by the cancellation of concerts and tours, and the stopping of recordings.

In 1974, he received an exit visa and went abroad with his wife and children for a long period of time, which was formalized as a business trip by the USSR Ministry of Culture.

In 1978 they were deprived of Soviet citizenship. The Izvestia newspaper dated March 16, 1978 wrote: “M. L. Rostropovich and G. P. Vishnevskaya, who went on trips abroad, showed no desire to return to the Soviet Union, carried out anti-patriotic activities, discredited the Soviet social system, the title of citizen of the USSR. They systematically provided material assistance to subversive anti-Soviet centers and other hostile to the Soviet Union to organizations abroad. In 1976-1977, they gave, for example, several concerts, the proceeds from which went to the benefit of White émigré organizations... Considering that Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya systematically commit actions that damage the prestige of the USSR and are incompatible with affiliation to Soviet citizenship, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR decided, on the basis of Article 7 of the USSR Law of August 19, 1938 “On Citizenship of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”, for actions discrediting the title of citizen of the USSR, to deprive M. L. Rostropovich and G. P. of USSR citizenship. Vishnevskaya".

USSR citizenship was returned to Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya in 1990.

Since 1974 he has become one of the leading conductors in the West. For 17 seasons, he was the permanent conductor and artistic director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, which under his leadership became one of the best orchestras in America, and a regular guest of the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic.

Rostropovich's last recordings were Schnittke's Cello Concerto No. 2 and Return to Russia, a documentary about a trip to Moscow with the National Symphony Orchestra in 1990.

During the August 1991 putsch and the events of October 1993, he acted on the side of the President of Russia, and in August 1991 he was among the defenders of the White House.

For 26 years he taught at the Moscow Conservatory, and for seven years he was a teacher at the Leningrad Conservatory.

From 1959 to 1974, Rostropovich was a professor, and since 1993, an honorary professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

Rostropovich the cellist's repertoire included, along with classical works, more than 140 contemporary works for cello, written especially for him. About 60 composers dedicated their works to Rostropovich, including Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Luciano Berio, Alfred Schnittke, Leonard Bernstein, Henri Dutilleux, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki and, especially, Benjamin Britten.

In 2002, the London newspaper The Times proclaimed Rostropovich "the greatest living musician." Daily Telegraph music columnist Lloyd Webber called Rostropovich “probably the greatest cellist of all time” (April 28, 2007).

Rostropovich is also known for his charitable activities: he was the president of the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Charitable Foundation, which provides assistance to Russian children's medical institutions, as well as one of the trustees of the A. M. Gorchakov school, revived in the spirit and traditions of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

In the summer of 2006, Mstislav Leopoldovich became seriously ill: in February and April 2007, he underwent two operations due to a malignant liver tumor.

Farewell to Rostropovich took place on April 28 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The funeral service took place in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Rostropovich was buried in Moscow, at the Novodevichy cemetery.

The Orenburg State Institute of Arts named after Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich was created in April 1997 on the basis of a music school (organized in 1927), which has a rich history and musical traditions. In this oldest educational institution in Orenburg, during the Patriotic War, he first studied in his father’s class, and then the world famous musician Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich worked.

Since 1993, during the annual visits of M.L. Rostropovich in Orenburg, master classes, creative meetings, and charity concerts of the maestro were held. The Institute of Arts is the owner of an invaluable complete collection of CDs “Mstislav Rostropovich plays, conducts, accompanies.” During the next master class on September 1, 2003, Mstislav Leopoldovich presented the rector B.P. Khatorin as a gift to the institute with a violin by the modern Italian master Leonardo Rafaeliano, made in Cremona on July 25, 2003 according to the model of A. Stradivarius “Kreutzer-1727.”

The structure of the university includes a special children's music school, a music college, the institute itself and graduate school. The Orenburg university is one of the youngest in Russia, but its intensive development has made it possible to form bright creative groups that have already gained fame and recognition not only in the city and region, but also in the country and abroad: academic and folk choirs, an orchestra of folk instruments, chamber, brass and symphony orchestras, instrumental and vocal ensembles.

On the basis of the educational institution, various competitions and festivals of young musicians are traditionally held at both the regional, regional, all-Russian and international levels, many of which have received wide recognition, in particular, the Russian competition of performers on wind and percussion instruments, as well as the International competition of folk performers instruments among students of higher and secondary vocational educational institutions of culture and arts “Cup of the Southern Urals - Orenburg Mosaic”.

The annual festival-competition “Young Pianists of the Orenburg Region”, uniting talented musicians of the region, has been held since 1979. Over the past 5 years, more than 100 students of the Institute of Arts have become laureates of international, all-Russian, republican and regional competitions.

Over the past 5 years, over 600 students of the institute have taken part in competitions and festivals. More than 30 of them took prizes and more than 100 were awarded certificates of honor and diplomas. 11 teachers of the institute became laureates of the governor’s prize “Orenburg Lyre”.

Music science is intensively developing at the young university. In particular, the Institute of Arts initiated two Russian and one International scientific and practical conferences dedicated to important problems of culture, art and education with the invitation of leading experts: “Art and education in the second millennium (Theory. Practice. Pedagogical positions)” and “Musical culture of Europe and Asia (History. Traditions. Modernity).” University scientific and practical conferences, pedagogical readings, workshops, lectures and master classes by leading teachers of creative universities in Russia are held annually.

Since 2001, the Orenburg Institute of Arts has been the founder of the scientific, methodological, educational and journalistic quarterly magazine "Orenburg Musical", which publishes articles of scientific and methodological content, as well as information about modern musical life.

The institute has two faculties: music and humanities and creativity. The university trains performing musicians (piano, orchestral folk, orchestral wind and percussion, orchestral string instruments), vocalists (academic and folk singing), conductors, dramatic theater and film actors, musical theater artists, and library workers.

In 2008, the institute successfully passed a comprehensive assessment of the activities of a state educational institution of higher professional education, was accredited and received a license for a period of 5 years.

Scientific and creative relations with leading universities of culture and art in the region, Russia, near and far abroad, the media, and public organizations are fruitfully and actively developing.

In recent years, students of the theater department participated in the International Festival of Theater Schools “Istropolitana” in Bratislava (Slovakia); the folk ensemble "Orgrad" of the music college of the Institute of Arts took part in the I Youth Festival of Russian Art in Bordeaux (France); The orchestra of Russian folk instruments of the Institute of Arts participated in the II Youth Festival of Russian Art in France (Con-Cours-sur-Loire). The chamber ensemble “Viola” took part in the Days of Russian Culture in the Czech Republic and became a diploma winner at the “Slavic Spring” festival (Prague, 2006). Students won 12 grants from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Russian Cultural Foundation, the Union of Theater Workers, and completed 570 research projects.

The pride of the institute is a concert hall with unique acoustics, which regularly hosts concerts of classical and folk music.

Teachers and students carry out active educational work, giving lectures and concerts in cities and districts of the Orenburg region.

The Orenburg State Institute of Arts is one of the centers of cultural life of the city, region and Southern Urals.

MEMORABLE DATE

MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH IN ORENBURG:
FROM THE HISTORY OF OUR MEETINGS

Visits of Mstislav Rostropovich to the city of his youth Orenburg and his meetings with the staff of the Orenburg State Institute of Arts. Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich are remembered by the vice-rector of the institute, Valentina Aleksandrovna Loginova.

The connection between Mstislav Rostropovich and Orenburg is strong and amazes with the amazing intersections of the lines of fate of a person and a city, the biographies of a musician and an educational institution providing professional music education in the Orenburg region (music technical school - school - college - institute).

Mstislav Rostropovich was born on March 27, 1927 - in the same year, 1927, the Orenburg Music College named after the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution was founded. Orenburg is the birthplace of M.L.’s mother, grandfather and great-grandfather. Rostropovich. Here his parents met - Sofya Nikolaevna Fedotova and Leopold Vitoldovich Rostropovich. Orenburg (then Chkalov) sheltered the Rostropovich family during the Great Patriotic War. In 1942, Mstislav Leopoldovich’s father died here. In the spring of 1943, the orphaned family left for Moscow.

M. Rostropovich returned to the city of his youth 50 years later, in October 1993. First of all, Mstislav Leopoldovich visited his father’s grave, because Orenburg became the last refuge for Leopold Vitoldovich. The teaching staff of the then Chkalov Music School took a direct part in the funeral of the cellist. Decades later, the city administration and the leadership of the institute contributed to the search for his burial place in the cemetery of the memorial complex on Pobedy Avenue. Every year teachers and students, representatives of the cultural community visit the grave of L.V. Rostropovich on the day of his death (July 31).

The busy program of the maestro’s first visit included a meeting with teachers and students of the Orenburg Music College. Such meetings became traditional - Mstislav Leopoldovich came almost every year. In October 1995, with the Omsk Symphony Orchestra conducted by E. Shestakov, he performed “Variations on a Rococo Theme” by Tchaikovsky. At the same time, the world-famous musician and conductor was solemnly presented with a certificate of conferment of the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Orenburg.”

In 1997, when Mstislav Rostropovich turned 70 years old - this anniversary was celebrated in many cities around the world - Mstislav Leopoldovich again visited the homeland of his ancestors. In the hall of the regional drama theater, where he watched Schiller’s “Cunning and Love” as a boy, he was honored. M.L. Rostropovich visited house No. 25 on Ziminskaya Street, where his family lived in evacuation, visited children's municipal hospital No. 3, which he helped with medical equipment, met with teachers and students of Children's Music School No. 1 named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky, gave a press conference. And on October 29, 1997, by decision of the regional Legislative Assembly, the Orenburg State Institute of Arts was named after Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich.

The maestro's next visit to our city (in May 1998) was marked by his performance of Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major (with the regional philharmonic chamber orchestra conducted by G. Klementyev). March 1999 left a particularly bright mark on the history of the Institute of Arts: a master class by M. Rostropovich took place. March 5, 2001 - another visit. That day, in the concert hall of the institute, a creative meeting between Mstislav Leopoldovich and the teaching and student staff took place. Many people were filled with the maestro’s “reports,” as he himself said: “So I briefly report to you about what I am doing and what I am going to do. Of course, I miss a lot, but I want to say that I work, work, work... My wife does not accompany me anywhere. She says: “When I just see how you work, I’m already tired” (applause in the audience). There were always a lot of people who wanted to ask Mstislav Rostropovich a question, and he answered everyone with pleasure. The conversations turned out to be extremely interesting.

We have your notes, which we treasure as treasured heirlooms. But we would like to have as complete a collection of your publications as possible. Is it possible? And further. Why, in your opinion, does Russia seem doomed to raise and educate talents that scatter all over the world, and we cannot listen to them often? "What to do?" - the eternal Russian question. What is your opinion on this matter?

M.L.– I feel indebted to you, so the question of my help is a question of my duty. I promise to send you to the institute all my recordings that I have (the maestro, as always, fulfilled his promise, and now the art institute has a unique complete collection of CDs “Mstislav Rostropovich plays, conducts, accompanies.” - V.L. ).

I will also answer a question related to our musical activities. Thinking about my life and creative path, I can say that I never looked at the life I had lived until I was 70 years old. I ran forward all the time, gratefully accepting what the Lord God gave me: acquaintance with great musicians, artists, writers. They changed me - the people I met: Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Charlie Chaplin, Leon Feuchtwanger and others. In conversations, discussions, in revelations with them - how could you not change? These meetings made me a different person. Why did they take place? Because I was expelled from the Soviet Union. In the West, my friendship began with Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Olivier Messiaen, Henri Dutilleux, Krzysztof Penderecki and many others. I must tell you that I would never in my life have been able to bring to our state, Russia, that grain of love that I brought with my art. I don’t rate my role highly, but I still gained a grain of love for our country through myself. Being Russian, I met all these great people all over the world. Not to mention the presidents of many countries and famous politicians. When I finished my 17-year stint with the Washington National Symphony Orchestra, at my final concert, letters from four US presidents were brought onto the stage: John Carter, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. They wrote such compliments that I can’t even tell you, I’m embarrassed! What if I stayed here? I give you my word that I would leave some trace in some circle of our people. But in the overall result of my life, I would not have been able to make as many friends for our Russia abroad as there are now. If Sergei Koussevitzky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Siloti, Vladimir Horowitz, the king of violinists Jascha Heifetz, and cellist Grigory Pyatigorsky had not been there, our music school would not have occupied such an international class.

...I have a feeling that we will soon all be united on Earth. This will happen when for the first time, in 30 years, we see the first aliens who will definitely fly to us. I'm sure of this. Yes, I'm sure there are other civilizations that should visit us. And when this happens, it will no longer matter where France is, where Germany is, where which country is. We will all be just earthlings. We will all be on our planet together. And it will be wonderful, I assure you! Because we will get to the point where we will not engage in idiocy - fight each other, kill each other. I hope it will be so, we will get there! Then, I must say, the interpenetration of our cultures will be extremely important and significant. Maybe now is the period when all over the world there is not so much adoration for our country, but I am sure that this is temporary. Because it was Russia that made a huge contribution to world science, literature, music - a contribution for which one cannot help but love us. They will love us! They will thank us! And you young students sitting here, study, damn it! (approving laughter and applause in the hall).

- What events in Orenburg do you remember for the rest of your life?

M.L.– There were a lot of these events. I could talk about them for a long time. I especially remember the war years. I remember - winter, cold. There is no water in the house. No stove. And suddenly a call! I open the door - strangers brought an armful of firewood. Someone brought a stove. And now, having 34 foreign orders, 48 ​​honorary doctorates from universities, including the largest - Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne - I believe that I have not paid my debt to those people who brought the stove and firewood then. Thanks to them! Thanks to Orenburg!

- How often do you communicate with student audiences?

At that meeting, the mayor of Orenburg Yu.N. Mishcheryakov expressed gratitude to the great musician for his participation in the affairs of the city and presented M.L. Rostropovich medal "Honorary Citizen of Orenburg". Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich received this title back in 1993. And now, as he said, “the medal has found its hero.” As a sign of respect and gratitude, the rector of the Institute of Arts B.P. Havtorin presented the maestro with flowers and, according to Mstislav Leopoldovich, the most expensive gift - several copies of his book “Musical Culture of Orenburg of the 20th Century,” the second chapter of which is dedicated to the Fedotov-Rostropovich dynasty, its role in the formation and development of the city’s musical culture. Thanking for the gift, Mstislav Rostropovich said: “I will give these books to my children and grandchildren. I want everyone to know and remember their Russian roots.”

In November 2001, Mstislav Leopoldovich flew to Orenburg together with the film group of director I.K. Belyaeva (TV company RTR), who made a film about him and the city of his youth. On November 14, the grand opening of the apartment-museum named after. L. and M. Rostropovich in a house on Ziminskaya Street.

Visit programs of M.L. Rostropovich's visits to Orenburg were always full of interesting events and communication - master classes, creative meetings, and charity concerts took place. During his last master class on September 1, 2003, Mstislav Leopoldovich presented the rector with B.P. Havtorin donated to the institute a violin by the modern Italian master Leonidas Rafaeliano, made in Cremona on July 25, 2003 according to the model of A. Stradivari “Kreutzer-1727”, which we keep as a precious relic. But the main thing is that we keep in our hearts the bright memory of Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich - a great and kind man.

Biography, life story of Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich

The famous musician, conductor and brilliant cellist Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich was born in Baku on March 27, 1927 into a family of musicians. Leopold Vitoldovich Rostropovich, his father, a famous cellist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, was a professor at the Saratov and Baku Conservatories. The family moved to Baku from the city of Orenburg. They were invited by the famous Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov. Rostropovich's grandfather, Witold Ganniballovich, came from a noble Polish family; he was a pianist, composer and compiler of collections of pedagogical musical pieces for the piano. In 1880, Rostropovich's great-grandfather was recognized, along with his children, in the Russian Empire as an ancient nobility. Mstislav Rostropovich's great-great-grandfather, Joseph Rostropovichius, came to Warsaw from Vilna. Rostropovich's mother Mstislava was a pianist and lived in Orenburg; her parents were famous musicians in Orenburg.

Mstislav Rostropovich began to study music early - from the age of four. In the years 1932-1937, Rastropovich studied in Moscow, at the Mayakovsky Music College. Already at the age of 14, Rostropovich began teaching at the music school in the city of Chkalov (now the city of Orenburg), where the family was evacuated during the war in 1941. At the same time, he took mastery lessons from composer M.I. Chulaki and conductor B.I. Khaikin in Chkalov. At age 16, Rastropovich entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied cello in the class of Semyon Kozolupov and studied composition with Sergei Prokofiev. In 1945, Rostropovich gained all-Union fame as a cellist. He won the gold medal at the III All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians. After this event, Slava Rostropovich was immediately transferred from the second year of the conservatory to the fifth. According to him, his personality was influenced by three composers: Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Britten. All-Union recognition came to Mstislav Leopoldovich in 1950 after he won the Hanush Vigan competition in Prague. Rostropovich became a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, where he worked for 26 years. Rostropovich taught at the Leningrad Conservatory for 7 years. From 1959 to 1974, Rostropovich worked as a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He received the title of honorary professor of the Moscow Conservatory in 1993.

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In 1969, Rostropovich and his family allowed Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn to live at their dacha in the Moscow region and wrote an open letter to the General Secretary of the CPSU in his defense. Measures followed to restrict Rostropovich's concert activities; tours abroad and many concerts were cancelled. Rostropovich and his wife, a famous opera singer, fell into disgrace and were issued visas to leave the USSR in 1974. Rostropovich and went abroad, where they began to engage in concert activities with great success. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR followed up with a measure of deprivation of citizenship in 1978 for actions allegedly damaging the prestige of the Soviet Union.

In 1977-1994, Rostropovich was in Washington, he was the chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, he was invited by the best orchestras in the world. He regularly performs with the Berlin Philharmonic. He is a regular guest of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Rostropovich is the organizer of his own festivals. On his initiative, the cello competition in Frankfurt is being revived. Rostropovich conducts master classes and opens music schools. Under his auspices, an international composition competition was held in 1998. Since 2004, he has headed the Higher School of Musical Excellence in Spain (in Valencia). Since 1998, under his auspices, the International Composition Competition began to be held, which was conceived for closer interaction between lovers of classical and modern music. Rostropovich played thousands of concerts, including at royal residences. The latest recordings were a recording of Schnittke's concerto for cello and orchestra and a unique documentary about the musician's trip to Moscow with the National Symphony Orchestra of the United States. The Rostropovich family is known for its charitable activities. Rostropovich was the president of the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich charity competition and one of the trustees of the school. Gorchakova.

In the summer of 2006, Mstislav Rostropovich became seriously ill. He died in April, on the 27th of 2007, in a clinic in Moscow, and was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.