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ANTON GRIGORYEVICH RUBINSTEIN

28th November 1829 --- 20th November 1894

Rubinstein was a Russian pianist and composer,  born of Jewish parentage  on November 1829 at Wechwotynetz,  Podolia,  and was
the son a pencil manufacturer who migrated to Moscow. Besides his mother, Anton had but one teacher, the piano master Alexander
Villoing, of whom he declared at the end of his own career that he had never met a better pianist with such talent.

In July 1838 Rubinstein  appeared in the theatre of the Petrowski Park in Moscow,  and in the following years in the principal centres
of Europe, including London. He then studied in Berlin and Vienna. The years 1848 to 1854 were spent in St.Petersburg in performing
and composing. His opera Dmitri Donskoi was produced there in 1851, and Toms der Narr in 1853. Die Sibirischen Jager,  was written
about the same time but was not produced.

In 1857 he paid his second visit to London were at a Philharmonic concert he introduced his own Concerto in G.  In the following year
he was in London again,  having in the meanwhile been  appointed Concert Director  of the Royal Russian Musical Society.  In 1862 in
collaboration with Carl Schuberth, he founded the St.Petersberg Conservatorium, of which he was director until 1867, and again from
1887 to 1890.

For twenty years from 1868 he made prolonged concert tours in Europe and America,  enjoying prodigious success wherever he went
and being accounted by some the superior even of Liszt.

He died in Novemeber 1894.  Rubinstein left compositions in  almost every known form,  for example he composed  around 20 Operas,
5 piano concertos, 6 symphonies and many solo piano works and substantial output of works for chamber ensemble. but it is as one of
the greatest of all  pianists that he will be remembered.  His brother  Nicholas Rubinstein (1835-1881)  also a fine pianist.  He founded
the Moscow Conservatorium in 1864, and was its director until his death.  There he founded a school of piano-playing which produced
many great artists.

Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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