The American pianist Harvey Lavan Cliburn, in the middle of the Cold War won the international Chaikovsky piano competition in Moscow and his music transcends decades of east-west clashes. Fame came to Cliburn in 1958 when he took first place in the first international Chaikovsky piano competition in Moscow, which made him a genuine winner in the midst of ideological tensions and threats between the USSR and the United States. Although Clibum, I do not take part in the Cold War, if we can affirm that His virtuous interpretation of the symphonies of Chaikovsky and Rafmaninov prevented the Kremlin authorities from ideologically using the contest.
