Daniel Paul Horn wrote::

>Rostropovich's last stage acknowledgement was perhaps the most touching
>he walked to the podium and lifted the score of the Thirteenth for the
>audience to see, and then stepped back and applauded it, along with his
>departed teacher and friend.

Last year here in Peru the director of the University of Lima's Orchestra
(Eduardo Garcia-Barrios) did the same gesture with the DSCH Fifth's score!

Mauricio Veliz Cartagena
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