The biography of Rubinstein director

He came from a poor Jewish merchant family. The game on the piano Anton began to study under the leadership of his mother, and then became a student of pianist A. for the first time in public he performed at 10 years in Moscow. Rubinstein began his musical career like many windoderkinds of the middle of the century, having made a concert tour of large cities in Europe with his teacher in years.

In the same years, his first works were published. Since the year, Anton Grigoryevich lived and worked abroad, where he was engaged in the theory of music with Z. Den, talked with F. Mendelsson and F. List, which had a very noticeable effect on the formation of the creative personality of the composer. However, very soon he acquired complete independence: due to the ruin and death of his father, the younger brother Nikolai left Berlin and his mother, Anton moved to Vienna and owe his entire further career to himself exclusively.

The hard work, independence and firmness of character, developed in childhood and youth, remained with the musician until the end of his days. In the year, Rubinstein returned to Russia and settled in St. Petersburg. He acted as a pianist and conductor mainly with his own works. He became the first Russian musician, whose glory was truly all -worldly: in different years he repeatedly concerts in all countries of Europe and in the USA.

And almost always he included his own piano works, or conducted his orchestral works. Rubinstein went down in the history of domestic culture as the initiator and one of the founders of the Russian Musical Society, a leading concert organization that contributed to the development of regular concert life and musical education in Russian cities. On his own initiative, the first St.

Petersburg Conservatory was created in the country - he became its director and professor in the first issue of his students Pyotr Tchaikovsky. All types, all branches of Rubinstein’s creative activity are united by the idea of ​​enlightenment. And the composer - too. Rubinstein's creative heritage is huge and covers all the main musical genres, many of his creations are heard today.

Among the best Rubinstein works are the opera “Demon” and “Persian songs”. In the Demon there was a genre of Russian lyrical opera, which soon received the embodiment in Eugene Onegin. The romances “Night” live and sound - “My voice for you is affectionate and gentle” - these poems by A. Pushkin were laid by the composer on his early piano play - “Romance” by FA MAZHOR, and epithalamic from the opera Nero, and the fourth concert for the piano with the orchestra is also the author and several books.

In the last years of his life, Rubinstein lived mainly in Dresden, going to different cities to charitable concerts, engaged in literary and pedagogical work and, of course, composing music. One of the greatest pianists, the creator of the Russian pianistic school, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein on November 8 in Peterhof, died. Persons of the day March 17: - Gotlib Daimler German engineer, designer and industrialist.