Arthur Rubinstein è stato un pianista polacco.
“[A Maurizio Pollini al Concorso Chopin del 1960] Questo giovane suona meglio di tutti noi.”
citato in Parola Enrico, Sono innamorato di Chopin https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2008/aprile/04/Sono_innamorato_Chopin__co_7_080404023.shtml, Corriere della sera, 4 aprile 2008
John Guinn (December 22, 1982) "Rubinstein Was His Music", Detroit Free Press, p. 8D.
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“God bless him. He will be remembered forever.”
Alexander Schneider — reported in Lon Tuck (August 29, 1983) "Emperor at the Keyboard", The Washington Post, p. C1.
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Antonio de Almeida — reported in Paul Hume (July 28, 1981) "Odyssey Of a Conductor", The Washington Post, p. C4.
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From his autobiography My Young Years (1973), quoted in Carol Krucoff (August 13, 1982) "FOCUS: With a Little Bit of Good Luck", The Washington Post, p. D5.
and I said, "Yes, I do mean it."
Vladimir Horowitz, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music (1992)
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Emanuel Ax — reported in Joseph McLellan (December 21, 1982) "Concert Pianist Arthur Rubinstein Dies at 95", The Washington Post, p. A1.
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Leonard Shure — reported in Richard Dyer (April 21, 1980) "Shure: Looking Back on the first 70 Years", Boston Globe.
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Statement made to a correspondent in Paris in 1976 — reported in John Callcott, United Press International (December 21, 1982) "Arthur Rubinstein, At Age 95; Concert Pianist and Bon Vivant, Boston Globe.
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He didn't like Paderewski, he didn't like Rachmaninoff, he was always criticizing everybody.
Vladimir Horowitz, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music (1992)
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John Rubinstein — reported in Kevin Kelly (February 22, 1981) "Rubinstein a Chip Off Rubinstein: John Says His Father's Music Shaped His Approach to Acting", Boston Globe.
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Franz Mohr, A Conversation with Bruce Duffie http://www.bruceduffie.com/mohr.html (1992)
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“…in his fingers he has more skill than any of the rest of us.”
Rubinstein remarking on a performance by Maurizio Pollini — reported in Joanne Sheehy Hoover (March 13, 1981) "Captain Of the Keyboard", The Washington Post, p. C1.
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Quoted from a 1977 interview by Robert MacNeil in the documentary Rubinstein at 90 — reported in Alan M. Kriegsmen (January 26, 1977) "The Magic of Rubinstein ...", The Washington Post, p. B7.
Virgil Thomson, "King of Pianists" (1949)
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