Anton Rubinstein
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Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conser
Portrait by Ilya Repin (1887)
Brothers Rubinstein: Nikolai (left) and Anton, 1862
"Van II": Liszt considered Rubinstein to have a physical likeness to Ludwig van Beethoven.
Rubinstein headstone in Tikhvin Cemetery, Saint Petersburg
Josef Hofmann
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Josef Casimir Hofmann was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
Anton Rubinstein
…Austria. Nearly all of these concerts were charity benefit events. Rubinstein also coached a few pianists and taught his only private piano student, Josef Hofmann, who would become one of the finest keyboard artists of the 20th century. Rubinstein never forgot his origins: he held a series of concerts, the proceeds…
Josef Hofman
Hofmann as a young man at the keyboard
Hofmann in 1916
Josef Hofmann playing solos in the Metropolitan Opera House gala on November 28, 1937, the 50th anniversary of his American debut.