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Browse piano sheets by Anton Rubinstein on Zen Virtual Piano. Anton Rubinstein, born at Vykhvatinetz, Podolia, on November 28, 1829, was a renowned pianist, conductor, composer and pedagogue, and the brother of Nikolai Rubinstein. His mother gave him his first piano lessons; the family moved to Moscow, where his father opened a small pencil factory. A well-known Moscow piano teacher, Alexandre Villoing, was entrusted with his musical education and was in fact his only piano teacher. A boy with one piano teacher and a family business in the background can be read as a musician formed by a single sustained apprenticeship. Villoing took him to Paris in 1839, where Rubinstein played before Chopin and Liszt. He stayed there until 1841 and then toured as a concert performer through the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, England and Norway. He met, and was supported by, Felix Mendelssohn and Giacomo Meyerbeer; he continued his studies with Dehn and then with Adolf Bernhard Marx while composing in earnest. Playing for Chopin and Liszt and then studying with Dehn and Marx can be read as a young pianist whose ambitions reached beyond performance. He returned to Russia in 1848 and settled in St. Petersburg. In 1854 he undertook another tour in western Europe with the assistance of the Grand Duchess; he found publishers in Berlin and gave concerts of his own works in London and Paris. The Saint Petersburg Conservatory, the first music school in Russia, opened in 1862. A first music school opening in 1862 in the city where he had settled can be read as that cityās musical life taking a more formal shape. Returning to Europe, he elaborated a cycle of historical concerts with programs ranging from Bach to Chopin, usually devoting the last concert of a cycle to Russian composers. In 1890 he founded the Rubinstein Prize, an international competition for young men aged 20 to 26, which offered two prizes of 5,000 francs each. His Ocean Symphony was one of the most frequently performed orchestral works in Europe and America, and his piano concertos were part of the standard repertoire. A prize for young musicians can be read as a performer looking to the next generation.
Browse piano sheets by Anton Rubinstein on Zen Virtual Piano.
Anton Rubinstein, born at Vykhvatinetz, Podolia, on November 28, 1829, was a renowned pianist, conductor, composer and pedagogue, and the brother of Nikolai Rubinstein. His mother gave him his first piano lessons; the family moved to Moscow, where his father opened a small pencil factory. A well-known Moscow piano teacher, Alexandre Villoing, was entrusted with his musical education and was in fact his only piano teacher. A boy with one piano teacher and a family business in the background can be read as a musician formed by a single sustained apprenticeship.
Villoing took him to Paris in 1839, where Rubinstein played before Chopin and Liszt. He stayed there until 1841 and then toured as a concert performer through the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, England and Norway. He met, and was supported by, Felix Mendelssohn and Giacomo Meyerbeer; he continued his studies with Dehn and then with Adolf Bernhard Marx while composing in earnest. Playing for Chopin and Liszt and then studying with Dehn and Marx can be read as a young pianist whose ambitions reached beyond performance.
He returned to Russia in 1848 and settled in St. Petersburg. In 1854 he undertook another tour in western Europe with the assistance of the Grand Duchess; he found publishers in Berlin and gave concerts of his own works in London and Paris. The Saint Petersburg Conservatory, the first music school in Russia, opened in 1862. A first music school opening in 1862 in the city where he had settled can be read as that cityās musical life taking a more formal shape.
Returning to Europe, he elaborated a cycle of historical concerts with programs ranging from Bach to Chopin, usually devoting the last concert of a cycle to Russian composers. In 1890 he founded the Rubinstein Prize, an international competition for young men aged 20 to 26, which offered two prizes of 5,000 francs each. His Ocean Symphony was one of the most frequently performed orchestral works in Europe and America, and his piano concertos were part of the standard repertoire. A prize for young musicians can be read as a performer looking to the next generation.
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His mother gave him his first lessons, and the Moscow piano teacher Alexandre Villoing was entrusted with his musical education and was in fact his only piano teacher.
An international competition established in 1890, open to young men between 20 and 26, with two prizes of 5,000 francs each.
In 1839 Villoing took him to Paris, where Rubinstein played before Chopin and Liszt.