Rostropovich hospitalized in Moscow – report

World-famous cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich has been hospitalized in Russia. President Vladimir Putin has called on him at a Moscow hospital, Radio Liberty reported. The report did not specify the ailment he is suffering from or his condition.

Rostropovich was born in Baku in 1927. Besides his career in music, he is widely known for his generous charitable activities and chairs the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich foundation, which provides medical aid to children.*