Arthur Rubinstein

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Music and career

Rubinstein began his career in earnest in 1904 in Paris, where he met composer Maurice Ravel and Paul Dukas and violinist Jacques Thibaud. He appeared at the Piano Concerto No. 2 in Camille Saint-Sans. In the presence of the composer, there were two people in the audience. Juliusz Wertheim's family, whose knowledge of Chopin's genius inspired Rubinstein, he developed friendships with violinist Paul Kochanski and composer Karol Szymanowski.

Rubinstein made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1906 and spent the rest of the United States, Austria, Italy, and Russia. He was not well known in the United States, according to his own testimony and that of his son in François Reichenbach's film L'Amour de la vie (1969). Rubinstein, who had been hounded by creditors and threatened with being barred from his Berlin hotel room by 1908, had failed to hang himself by 1908. He later stated that he was "reborn" and was endowed with an unconditional love of life. In 1912, he made his London debut and discovered a musical home in Edith Grove, Chelsea, with Kochanski, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Casals, Pierre Monteux, and others in company with Kochanski, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Casals, Pierre Monteux, and others.

Rubinstein remained in London after World War I, giving recitals and accompanying violinist Eugène Ysae. He made his first tours in Spain and South America, where he was highly acclaimed in 1916 and 1917. He developed an interest in the music of Enrique Granados, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, and Heitor Villa-Lobos on those tours. Manuel de Falla's Fanta Bética, Villa-Lobos' Rudepoêma and Stravinsky's Trois mouvements de Petrouchka, was dedicated to him.

Rubinstein was disgusted by Germany's behavior during the war and never played again. In 1914, he appeared in Germany for the last time.

Rubinstein toured Great Britain in 1919 with soprano Emma Calvé and tenor Vladimir Rosing.

Rubinstein gave two American tours to New York in 1921, with Karol Szymanowski and his close friend Paul Kochanski.

In 1934, the pianist, who admitted that he neglected his technique in his early years, began relying instead on natural abilities, which led to many months of intensive research and practice.

Rubinstein returned to the United States in 1937, during his career as he lived in Brentwood, California, Los Angeles, California. In 1946, he became a naturalized United States citizen.

Rubinstein produced the piano soundtrack for a number of films, including Song of Love with Katharine Hepburn, during his stay in California. In the films Carnegie Hall and Of Men and Music, he appeared as himself.

Rubinstein, who is best known as a recitalist and concerto soloist, was considered one of the finest chamber musicians in Europe, and he performed with Henryk Szeryng, Jascha Heifetz, Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, and the Guarneri Quartet, as well as the Guarneri Quartet. Rubinstein mastered a substantial portion of the classical piano repertoire, particularly that of Romantic composers. "Chopin was his passion [as] a Chopinist that was regarded by many without peer" at the time of his death. He produced the bulk of Chopin's works, with the exception of the Études. He gave a special concert in Moscow in 1964, during the Cold War, as part of a pure Chopin program. He was one of the first champions of Spanish and South American composers, as well as French composers of the early twentieth century (such as Debussy and Ravel). In addition, Rubinstein promoted Karol Szymanowski's music. Rubinstein praised Brahms as his favorite composer in a conversation with Alexander Scriabin, a suggestion that enraged Scriabin.

The film Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life (2005) was released in 1969; it received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. (How Rubinstein at 90 showed how he had been playing for people for eight decades).

Rubinstein's eyesight had begun to fade by the mid-1970s by the mid-1970s. In May 1976, he retired from stage at the age of 89, appearing at his last performance at Wigmore Hall in London, where he had appeared almost 70 years ago.

Rubinstein, who was fluent in eight languages, owned a large part of the repertoire (but not necessarily in the piano) in his remarkable memory. He discovered César Franck's Symphonic Variations while riding a train en route to the festival without the use of a piano, and he was practicing passages in his lap, according to his memoirs. Rubinstein characterized his memory as photographic, to the point that he could picture an errant coffee stain when recalling a score.

Rubinstein had also fantastic aural skills, allowing him to perform complete symphonies in his mind. "I might have a Brahms symphony in my head at breakfast," he said. "I am called to the phone and half an hour later, it's been going on all the time and I'm in the third generation." Rubinstein's colleagues would randomly select excerpts from opera and symphonic scores and request that they perform them from memory.

Two volumes of Rubinstein's autobiography were published: My Young Years (1973); and My Many Years (1980). Many people were dissatisfied by the emphasis on personal anecdotes over music. "I had idolized Rubinstein," Pianist Emanuel Ax, one of Rubinstein's most devoted followers, told Harvey Sachs, "I had wanted to live like him."

A fortunate fellow, am I not?"

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