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  Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (Анто́н Григо́рьевич Рубинште́йн) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor.
As a pianist, he was regarded as a rival to Franz Liszt.
Anton Rubinstein was the brother of the pianist and composer Nikolai Rubinstein, but was no relation to the 20th century pianist, Artur Rubinstein.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anton_rubinstein.html   (482 words)

  
 Public Domain Music - Biographies - Anton G Rubenstein - at Web-Helper.net
The earliest teacher of young Anton was his mother, a woman of broad culture and an accomplished pianist.
Villoing remained the young Anton's only teacher ofthe piano, although he also studied with Dehn, the famous master of harmony and counterpoint, and Marks, the well known theorist.
One of the most valuable legacies he left to musicians is the advice in regard to musical education and music schools, which is to be found in his autobiography.
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Rubenstein was the first to see real signs of talent, but had to criticize Tchaikovsky for years of careless work.
Rubenstein was very critical of Tchaikovsky’s most important student piece, The Storm Overture, inspired by a melancholy play by Russian dramatist Ostrovsky.
Rubenstein was furious because this was not the kind of thing he expected from his normally obedient students.
www.tchaikovsky.host.sk /life.htm   (2630 words)

  
 Rubinstein Family
Rubenstein did not know at the time, however, how his study of Russian would affect the rest of his life.
Rubenstein stresses that his grass-roots organization plays a vital role in combating human-rights abuses domestically as well as globally.
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 Peter Tchaikovsky
The A minor Piano Trio was written as a memorial tribute to Nicholas Rubenstein, Director of the Moscow Conservatory, (brother of the pianist and composer Anton Rubenstein).
Rubenstein had served as mentor, critic and supporter to Tchaikovsky; had seen to it that Tchaikovsky’s works got the best possible performances.
Given Rubenstein’s reaction to the piano concerto, I would suggest that the fact that old Nick was dead, and couldn’t hear the work dedicated to him, might have spared the sensitive Peter Ilyich another savaging.
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 TchikR&J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tchaikovsky's first steps were towards the legal profession and, by the age of 19, he had obtained a position in the Ministry of Justice in St Petersburg.
Encouraged by the director of the Moscow Conservatoire, Anton Rubenstein, who thought Tchaikovsky "definitely talented" if somewhat careless, he gave up his "day" job to study music full-time.
Sadly, the first performance in 1870 was hindered by a sensational court case surrounding Rubenstein and a female student.
web.ukonline.co.uk /nso/TchaikR&M.htm   (253 words)

  
 News @ the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Anton Rubenstein's extensive tour of one-night stands in the 1870s brought classical music to the American "sticks" for the first time and defined piano performance for American ears in the process.
Balanchine, Rubenstein, and Mordkin were not ethnic Russians, nor are many of the great "Russian" conductors now leading American orchestras-such as Valery Gergiev and Yuri Temirkanov.
The cultural achievements, both high and low, of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union are the consequence of a blending of confessions, ethnicities, linguistic groups, and cultures.
www.wilsoncenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=news.item&news_id=56811   (1065 words)

  
 •• Biography of Anton Grigoryevich Rubenstein - PianoParadise ••   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Anton Grigoryevich Rubenstein was born in 1829 in Vikhvatinetz.
Rubenstein best works include Melody in F, in 1859, and Kammenyi-ostrov, in 1859, which translates to Rocky island.
Thank you for visiting our Rubenstein Biography, or composer biography of Rubenstein, and we hope that you have enjoyed reading the biography of the famous classical composer Rubenstein!
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 Rubinstein, Anton at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians - Search Results
Anton Rubinstein, whose playing helped shape an entire generation of pianists, was a titanic force of pianism throughout 19th-century Russia and Europe.
Two of the greatest pianists of the last century - Anton Rubenstein and Teresa Carreno - left behind them works detailing the role of good pedaling in Piano performance.
Anton Rubinstein: Romance In E Flat For Violin And Piano
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 Theremin Vox - Rosalyn Tureck Dies at 88   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tureck was born in Chicago, where she made her solo recital debut at age 9.
One of her piano teachers was Sophia Brilliant-Liven, a student of Anton Rubenstein, to whom Tureck traced her technique.
She attended the Juilliard School, where she studied with Olga Samaroff; during her tenure there she made her Carnegie Hall debut performing on the theremin, the electronic instrument invented by Leon Theremin, with whom she had studied.
www.thereminvox.com /article/static/58   (326 words)

  
 Networking Rubinstein
And yet, Anton Rubenstein was very conscious of his `otherness'.
In 1845/6, following Anton's second concert tour and at the proposal of their formidable mother Klara, who took advice form Mendelsohn and Meyerbeer the brothers undertook musical studies at Berlin to develop their careers.
One of these was the pianist and composer, and close friend of Mendelssohn, Ignaz Moscheles, born in 1794 and like, Anton, having been forced to make his own way when his parents' finances had failed.
www.smerus.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /id50.htm   (1659 words)

  
 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - an overview of the classical composer
He was only at the age of 23 that he made a career change and decided to study composition at the new St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Although Tchaikovsky's music is now universally admired across the world, he wasn't always to receive a warm reception in his native Russia and a poor critical reception to his works understandably contributed to his periods of depression.
The dedication was changed but years later Rubenstein changed his mind and was to play the work regularly.
www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Peter-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky.htm   (1174 words)

  
 University Theatres - Keyed Up - Larry Sitsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born in China of Russian-Jewish parents, Larry Sitsky studied piano with the legendary Egon Petri, himself a student of Ferrucio Busoni, one of Liszt's most influential students.  Through this remarkable lineage, Sitsky is an heir to and representative of a distinguished pianistic legacy.
A true musical polymath, Larry Sitsky has been Head of Keyboard Studies and Musicology, and is now Head of Composition Studies at the Canberra School of Music.  His compositions have been performed worldwide and he is the author of a book on the piano music of Anton Rubinstein.
In recognition of his distinguished career, Larry Sitsky was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities of Australia in 1998 and made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2000.
theatres.uwa.edu.au /welcome/whats_on_at_uni_theatres/keyed_up__larry_sitsky   (189 words)

  
 The National Ballet of Canada | Directors and Company Members   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
By 1859, when Tchaikovsky was 19, his studies for a career in law gave way to his childhood love of the music to which he was to devote his life.
In 1861, he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, where he worked on musical theory under the tutelage of Anton Rubenstein.
When he graduated four years later, Tchaikovsky was awarded the coveted silver medal.
www.national.ballet.ca /InsideTheCompany/showBio.php?id=pyotr_ilyich_tchaikovsky   (600 words)

  
 The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But he devoted more time to his music studies and soon gave up his job to study at the newly established St Petersburg Conservatory, founded by the composer Anton Rubenstein.
He graduated in 1865 and got a post as professor of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory.
Nikolay Rubenstein, a famous pianist, heard this concerto and was appalled by it.
www.themusicmagazine.com /tchaikovsky.html   (671 words)

  
 Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B Minor "pathétique" - bhso.org.uk
At the age of 23 years he summoned up enough courage to resign and devote himself to the study of music.
He entered the newly-founded Russian Musical Society (the precursor of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatoires) where he came under the influence of Anton Rubenstein.
Balakirev, one of the group of Russian composers known as "The Mighty Handful", became for a few years an influence on Tchaikovsky in the form of an autocratic critic of the younger composer's work.
www.bhso.org.uk /repert-143-Tchaikovsky-Symphony-no-6-in-B-minor-Pathetique.htm   (2107 words)

  
 Victoria Dance Series - Victoria's most popular and captivating dance performances!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In his mid-twenties, Tchaikovsky quit his work in the Ministry to begin full time studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
It was here that he began to study under the noted teacher Anton Rubenstein who was the first to recognize his inherent talent, despite Rubenstein’s concern that it was masked by a very amateur execution.
In 1864 he composed his first orchestral score, The Storm that infuriated Rubenstein because of its “colour and drama”.
www.victoriadanceseries.com /resources/tchaikovsky.htm   (689 words)

  
 •• Rubenstein Piano Sheet Music, Rubenstein Sheet Music ••
Andante, Opus posthumous (1885) (RUBENSTEIN) By Ysaye, Eugene (1858-1931).
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 Letters of Franz Liszt - To Anton Rubenstein
Letters of Franz Liszt - To Anton Rubenstein
Certainly, my very honored friend, I shall not leave off taking a very sincere and loyal part in the unfolding of the career that you are pursuing with such rare prowess, and all that you can tell me of your doings in composition and musical conducting will always find in me a lively interest.
Use and reproduction of this material is governed by Globusz Publishing's standard terms and conditions.
www.globusz.com /ebooks/Liszt/00000238.htm   (343 words)

  
 Shura Cherkassky captivates audience at Jordan Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
SHURA CHERKASSKY DEMONSTRATED once again why he is considered the last of the great romantic piano players after captivating a mixed audience in a recent concert at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
Born in the Soviet Union, the 79-year-old pianist emigrated to the United Studies to study with the renowned Josef Hofmann, himself a pupil of the famous Russian pianist and composer, Anton Rubenstein.
His debut concert tour in 1923 included appearances with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony, and a performance at the White House for President Warren G. Harding.
www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N42/shura.42a.html   (536 words)

  
 The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 20 - Brüll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A very well respected pianist, Brüll was noted for his sympathetic insight into the essence of a work, which only a virtuoso who is a creative artist can possess.
Colleagues such as Franz Liszt, Anton Rubenstein and Clara Schumann, as well as many critics, regarded him as one of the leading exponents of his craft.
As a composer, he stood firmly within the tradition of the conservative, Classical school.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk /details/67069.asp   (605 words)

  
 Genealogy Images of History Ru - Rz
RUBENS PAINTING * - 1925 - (London, England) Purchased for a few shillings and now confirmed to be geniune as saved from this old American Pictorial Magazine.
RUBENSTEIN, ANTON *, (1829 - 1894) - Intaglio Sepia Gravure (67 Years Old).
RUBENSTEIN, Erna * - 1922 - Hungarian Violinist debuts with New York Philharmonic Orchestra as pictured in "Actresses and Scenes in Recent Theatrical Openings".
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 Saint Petersburg - EXCLUSIVE PROGRAMS
Take a drive through the quite Kolomna quarter, which used to be a real Jewish neighborhood and at a time was home to Salman Rubashov.
Stop by the Conservatoire, founded by Anton Rubenstein, which has always had numerous Jewish students.
Drive along the City of Saint Petersburg - Jewish bankers have built up the prosperity of the Northern Capital.
www.actis.tourworld.ru /spb_exclusive_pr.htm   (556 words)

  
 Notebook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
My memory is a bit foggy, but I recall being enraged that such a picture could be done by the hand of this simpleton and not my own.
A sudden, violent impulse took hold of me. I ran to the library, found a copy of Niwa and began copying a portrait of Anton Rubenstein, the composer, captivated by his wrinkled face.
I worked on other illustrations, including a Greek design, and I might have also done some drawings from my imagination.
www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/Chagall.htm   (402 words)

  
 Mykola Suk
Mykola Suk's "powerful and pearl-like playing" (Wiener Zeitung), his "immense talent of tone coloring" (Le Soleil, Quebec), his "enormous digital control" (Toronto Star) and his ability to "transform virtuosity into poetry of the mind" (Keskisumalainen, Finland) have earned him comparisons with some of the great pianists of all time.
"One soon understood why he has been compared to Richter it appeared as if, with his playing, Mykola Suk would set the instrument on fire," said the Trossinger Zeitung, and "surely the most towering and volcanic talent to have come out of Russia since Anton Rubenstein," said the European Piano Teacher's Journal.
He has concertized in solo recitals, as a soloist with major orchestras under leading conductors (most recently with the Russian National Symphony under Mikhail Pletnev), and at chamber music festivals throughout the former USSR, North America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia.
www.shuppartists.com /Shupp/Artists/Suk.htm   (197 words)

  
 Rachmaninov3Concerto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Living at his teacher's flat, practice started at six in the morning!
However, at Zverev's Sunday soirées, he did meet many of the famous and influential, including Anton Rubenstein, Arensky and the composer who was to influence him most strongly in his early years, Tchaikovsky.
In 1888 Rachmaninov moved on to study the piano with his cousin Ziloti in the senior department of the Conservatoire.
web.ukonline.co.uk /nso/Rachmaninov3Concerto.htm   (510 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Mariinsky set for season finale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Daria Pavlenko will dance Odette-Odile, and Igor Kolb will dance the part of Siegfried.
The current Mariinsky season, which opened October 6, 2002, featured 10 premieres, including a full staging of Wagner's four-opera 'Ring' cycle; the smash-hit Hollywood film, 'K-19,' the soundtrack for which was recorded by the Mariinsky orchestra, and Anton Rubenstein's 'Demon' as part of the 'Russian Season' in Paris.
The Mariinsky also staged its third International Festival of Ballet (February 21-March 2) and the 11th 'Stars of White Nights,' an international festival of arts.
english.pravda.ru /science/2003/08/22/49478_.html   (261 words)

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