Word: liszt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving early at Boston's Symphony Hall the following afternoon, Rubinstein found that Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 had erroneously been put into the program. He had not played it in two years. With scarcely a shrug, he retired to a piano backstage to brush up. By concert time he had it down pat, and during the performance he played it faultlessly. Later, after the inevitable post-concert dinner party in the suburbs, Rubinstein decided to hire a limousine for the 200-mile return trip to Manhattan. "Let's do it!" he cried. "It will be an adventure...
Back to Mozart. As a stripling, Rubinstein often lived at the mercy of impresarios who wanted him to perform only the crowd pleasers?Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff. "They never listened to me," he growls, "just to the box office." Now, like an aging Romeo, he has "come back to Mozart on my knees." That alone is quite an achievement. "You remember what Schnabel said about Mozart sonatas?" recalls Rubinstein. " 'Too easy for children, too difficult for artists.' " So it is: Mozart demands a fidelity to rhythm that few performers can ever master. It is characteristic of Rubinstein's magic that even...
...World side, his pianistic pedigree dates back to some of the great masters and to the very origins of the instrument. Violinist Josef Joachim, Brahms's great friend, was Rubinstein's mentor. Rubinstein got his piano training from Karl Heinrich Earth, who was taught by the man (Franz Liszt), who was taught by the man (Karl Czerny), who was taught by the man?Ludwig van Beethoven...
Apes & Cockatoos. He was a concert pianist, an intimate friend of Chopin and Liszt, and one of the finest post-Beethoven composers for piano. He was known as the Berlioz of the piano. His music reflected none of the warm rhapsodical reveries of Chopin and Liszt but, rather, foreshadowed Mahler and Bruckner. A moody, eccentric loner, Alkan retired from public life at 42 to study the Talmud, teach, and compose. One of the pieces he composed, curiously enough, was a funeral march for a parakeet...
Always short of das Rheingold on his $115-a-month allowance, high-living Wolfgang ("Wummi") Wagner, 23, made up an unheroic plot. Tucked away in the family's old Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth was an 1839 pencil sketch that Jean Auguste Ingres had made of Composer Franz Liszt, and after the great...