Anton Rubinstein : a life in music / by Taylor, Philip, 1949-2007

Anton Rubinstein : a life in music / by Taylor, Philip, 1949-2007

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Leokadiya Kashperova : biography, 'Memoirs' and 'Recollections of Anton Rubinstein' / by Griffiths, Graham, 1954-

“…Recollections of Anton Rubinstein.…”
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Virtuoso : the life and art of Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Wanda Landowska, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould / by Sachs, Harvey, 1946-

The glorious ones : classical music's legendary performers / by Schonberg, Harold C.

Table of Contents: “…The castrati : lungs of men, voices of women -- Angelica Catalani : pyrotechnics and greed -- A digression on travel, the industrial revolution, and related matters -- Giuditta Pasta, Maria Malibran, Henrietta Sontag, and Giulia Grisi : bel canto -- Giovanni-Battista Rubini, Mario, and Luigi Lablache : Bengal rockets, sweetness, and cannonades -- A digression on money -- Nicolò Paganini : spawn of the devil -- Franz Liszt : the eagle of the piano -- Jenny Lind : the moral lady -- Joseph Joachim : the incorruptable -- Anton Rubinstein : Russian elemental -- Adelina Patti : the queen of song -- Jean and Edouard de Reszke : the singing brothers -- Ignaz Paderewski : the aureoled Pole -- Pablo de Sarasate, Eugène Ysaÿe, Jan Kubelik, and Fritz Kreisler : a quartet of violinists -- Nellie Melba : the singing machine -- Enrico Caruso : the tenor of tenors -- Josef Hofmann : the Polish keyboard master -- Sergei Rachmaninoff : the Russian master -- John McCormack : Irish gold -- Feodor Chaliapin : bass from Mother Russia -- Arturo Toscanini : the maestro -- Jascha Heifetz : unruffled perfection -- Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior : the two Wagnerians -- Arthur Rubinstein : joie de vivre -- Vladimir Horowitz : electrical energy -- Maria Callas : the will to succeed -- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, and Georg Solti : timebeaters three -- Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo : mano a mano.…”

Moriz Rosenthal in word and music : a legacy of the nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Moriz Rosenthal-Emil Sauer : and modern pianism / Edward Prime-Stevenson -- Schumann's Carnaval / M.R. -- Anton Rubinstein's concert in Pressburg / M.R. -- My memories of Johannes Brahms / M.R. -- Brahmsiana / M.R. -- Brahms and Johann Strauss II / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. / G.C. -- Letter to the Editor / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. -- From Aphorisms / M.R. -- On the question of applause / M.R. -- Appendix A. …”
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Russia's people of empire : life stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…Weeks -- Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov, 1800-1857) / Mara Kozelsky -- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) / Edyta Bojanowska -- Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) / Richard Stites -- Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887) / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- Kutlu-Mukhammad Batyr-Gireevich Tevkelev (1850-?) …”
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