Ignaz Moscheles
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Isaac Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later in Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of
Moscheles, from a portrait by his son Felix Moscheles, 1860
Moscheles married Charlotte Emden (Henri Lehmann,1837)
Moscheles in Leipzig
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
Ignaz Moscheles
…Throughout his life, like many other musicians of Jewish origin, he remained close to other musicians of similar descent such as Felix Mendelssohn, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim and Ferdinand Hiller. He also remained in contact with patrons of Jewish origin such as the Eskeles family in Vienna, the Leo family…
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