Which composer was not a close collaborator of Rostropovich?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sergei Prokofiev
Dmitri Shostakovich
Benjamin Britten
Answer
Sergei Prokofiev was not a close collaborator of Rostropovich because he died in 1953, 11 years before Rostropovich won the International Tchaikovsky Competition and began his career as a world-renowned cellist.
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