PASSINGS : Yuri Egorov; Soviet Pianist Who Defected to Holland
Yuri Egorov, 33, a Soviet-born pianist who defected to the Netherlands in 1977. Egorov complained of a lack of artistic freedom in the Soviet Union and went into hiding during an Italian tour in 1977. He settled in the Netherlands shortly afterward. His concert career included appearances in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Paris and Brussels. In Amsterdam on Saturday of the complications of AIDS, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.
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