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Daniil Shafran

ダニイル・シャフラン　/　だにいる・しゃふらん

Musician from Russia

January 13, 1923 – February 7, 1997　・　Saint Petersburg, Russia

musician
music educator
cellist

My Take

What draws me to Daniil Shafran is not the wall of Soviet honors he collected, but the patience inside the sound itself. The cello sits closest to the human voice, and Shafran seemed to chase that intimacy obsessively, treating a single sustained note as a place to live rather than pass through. Coming up in 1920s Leningrad, he carried the full weight of his era yet never let it harden into mere technique. That he also arranged and taught tells me he loved music as a whole craft, not just performance. Even through old recordings, his playing makes me sit up straighter.

Overview

Daniil Borisovich Shafran (Russian: Даниил Борисович Шафран, January 13, 1923 – February 7, 1997) was a Soviet Russian cellist.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Daniil Shafran
Name (Japanese): ダニイル・シャフラン
Reading: だにいる・しゃふらん
Born: January 13, 1923 – February 7, 1997
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Boar
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: musician / music educator / cellist / music arranger

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

Stalin Prize
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Merited Artist of the RSFSR

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3

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