But Rubinstein started playing at p. Visit Steinway. Find a retail location to see a Steinway piano in person. Please enter a valid email address. Please select a country. Please select a province. Please enter a valid postal code ex Please select a state. Please enter the nearest major city.
Please choose a prefecture. Arthur Rubinstein was the youngest of seven children, the sixth being born eight years before him.
Over the next few years he continued his education and played concerts in Warsaw, Hamburg and Dresden. The summer of was spent with Paderewski at his home in Morges and upon his return to Berlin, Rubinstein decided to finish his studies with Barth and go to Paris.
His years from ten to seventeen were spent in Berlin, supported by patrons; he hardly ever saw his family. By this time Rubinstein had already become popular in high society, and practising new repertoire and studying scores took second place to socialising. He relied on his talent to learn quickly, did not work at technically difficult passages and used the sustaining pedal as a camouflage.
Reviews in America were not good, mainly commenting that Rubinstein was inexperienced and unprepared, but was clearly a talent that would mature. Already living beyond his means, Rubinstein gave piano lessons and played orchestral and opera scores to whoever would pay him. Because he spoke at least five languages, during World War I Rubinstein was based in Paris acting as an interpreter. He then toured Spain and South America, where he was extremely popular.
This was the beginning of his lifelong association with the music of Spain. He worked on his technique, studied scores in more detail than before and returned to the concert stage with immediate success, continuing a career well into his eighties.
Not simply a solo pianist with a large repertoire, Rubinstein also played chamber music with violinist Jascha Heifetz and cellist Emanuel Feuermann and later with Gregor Piatigorsky. Rubinstein loved to play the piano and would think nothing of performing two concertos in one concert, even when in his seventies. In the mids he played seventeen works for piano and orchestra in five concerts, and in , already in his mid-seventies, he played ten recitals at Carnegie Hall. In , he traveled to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall.
The reception in New York was cool, but he finished the 75 concert tour of the country as he had planned. After returning to Paris, Rubinstein refrained from public appearances for four years. During this time, he lived a tempestuous existence — at times he was poor and without a place to sleep, and at others he lived among the cultured elite.
He continued to practice, however, and became friends with the conductor Serge Koussevitzky and the composer Igor Stravinsky. He had become a more mature and passionate pianist since his performance at Carnegie Hall and the people of Spain responded to him enthusiastically.
His playing was not the controlled sedate playing of the traditional classical musician, but a wild unrestrained embrace of the piano. It was his charismatic and passionate playing, rather than his virtuosity, which drew large audiences. Rubinstein followed his visit to Spain with an equally well-received extended tour of South America.
These performances gave him the money and encouragement to return to Europe and continue performing. Once in Paris, he returned to the frenzied life he led before the war. With his friends, Cocteau and Picasso, he enjoyed the social life of the artist, but felt his own playing had come to a standstill.
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