Boris Pasternak ‒ Piano Sonata in B Minor

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Piano Sonata in B Minor (1909) Performed by Hiroaki Takenouchi It may be quite a surprise to learn that Boris Pasternak, the Symbolist poet, translator of Shakespeare and author of Dr Zhivago, who was forced by political pressure to refuse the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, was also a composer. However, he came from a musical family: his mother Roza was a concert pianist, a student of Rubinstein and Leschetizky, and his early impressions were of hearing piano trios in