Arthur Rubinstein being Arthur Rubinstein for 8 minutes straight

I wanted to make this video about Rubinstein comedic yet light-hearted. Much like my Horowitz video! Rubinstein was a legendary pianist and had an amazing personality.

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[zeus]

If I can be indulged...My mother was born in 1924 and took piano lessons all the way until she graduated from the NE Conservatory in Boston, shortly after WW2.
Like many women of the time, she was derailed from a career as a concert pianist by getting married and having a family. Her idol, from day one, was Arthur Rubinstein. Fast forward, and my mom, my dad and I are on a trip to Israel, in 1978. We are sitting the lobby of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, when my mother exclaims "Oh my god! That's Arthur Rubinstein!" Sure enough, walking across the lobby, accompanied by a tall, very attractive blond woman, was the legendary 90 year old Rubinstein. My mother actually got up from the lobby couch, and rushed towards him, my dad and I in pursuit, and she immediately began a display of idol worship that I had never seen before from her. She told him how she saw him at the Conservatory, or at Symphony Hall, or at some other performance and how she fashioned her techniques after him, etc, etc! The young assistant, who he introduced as his "companion", I much later in life figured out was Annabelle Whitestone. Anyway, after my mother and he had a discussion for a minute or so, he invited us to join him and his nurse in the hotel bar, off the lobby, for drinks! So, indeed, my mother, my dad and I (I was 13 at the time), sat and had drinks (I had a Coke most likely) at the bar in the King David Hotel with Arthur Rubinstein and his "companion". Needless to say, once we had said our goodbyes, and he congratulated me on my Bar Mitzvah, we parted ways. My mother was on Cloud Nine for the rest of the trip, and remembered that day until the day she passed in 2014.

[amhaun]

The bit with the Chopin etude is hilarious

[maxpemberton]

That final speech of his in his old age is worth 10x more than any motivational, grindset speech ever could be. It’s so inspiring and uplifting to hear this great artist in the last years of his life having lost his eyesight, yet still finding wonder in life and, not just loving life, but loving life unconditionally.

[snakeeplayz]

The world needs more people like Arthur Rubinstein! We are missing someone that was truly grand and a comic at times 😂

[crafend]

There is a funny anecdote Krystian Zimerman had about Rubinstein!
"I told him, those Brahms Ballades, they are so deep! And he took my hand, and said "My boy.... are you sure it is so deep?"

[sebastian-benedictflore]

His "oulala" at the barking dog was hilarious, finished me

[ELISPOTTS-xcqx]

When he plays the A flat polonaise, it gives me chills.

[niccolopaganini]

No one is going to forget about him in 300 years, his recording s will be listened for another century

[mikeinkc]

Rubinstein NEVER took himself seriously...and brought the joy of music to the world.

[jowr]

Artur Rubinstein was my favorite pianist in my youth. His interpretations were always so natural, with a technique that always served the music. Nothing ever sounded exaggerated or contrived.

[whatafreakinusername]

Once again, people must be reminded: one of Rubinstein’s mentors when he was young was Joseph Joachim, who performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto under the baton of no less than Felix Mendelssohn himself, and was a close friend of Brahms. To me the former lends a real weight to the moment at 0:05. He also studied under a student of Liszt, and can trace his short pedagogical lineage to Beethoven.

[wingcap]

The A flat Polonaise sounds absolutely incredible here.. What a huge, rich, sound!! The musical ideas so eloquent and natural and the bass like an earthquake. Jaw dropping.. And he just pulled that off like it‘s nothing. A legend!

[geraldparker]

I attended live recitals by Art(h)ur Rubinstein on three wonderful occasions. The first one was in 1963, in Washington, D.C., at Constitution Hall. I went as a sailor with a mate from the naval base who liked classical music. Rubinstein then was at the peak of his form and powers as a pianist. My friend, embaarrasingly to me, was an authobraph seeker nut. I'll never forget how elegantly Rubinstein just gently and elegantly swept his autograph notebook away, so inconspicuously but decidedly, as he greeted us after the concert. He was the greatest of his time, and nobody can persuade me otherwise.

[shubus]

Rubinstein is so greatly missed not only as a great pianist, but as a great human being.

[brozors]

His two autobiographies were a riot and highly entertaining reads. He is the true king of the Jewish musicians.

[zoulou-zomba]

Like any genius, not only he excels in his field but in all aspects of life. These people always leave a trace in their wake for mankind.

[leochurakov]

3:30 - they don’t argue in German, it’s Russian(I'm talking about inaccuracy in subtitles)
Here you can see the following gentlemen:
Grigory Pyatigorsky - studied at the Moscow Conservatory, Joseph Heifetz - studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Wonderful video, thank you, Piergiorgio.

[aston]

A true force of nature and an inspiration to millions, , , even his books are incredible, , ,

[Chopin]

His polonaise is amazing - there is a character there that others dont quite get/have

[Alpha-Andromeda]

He was such a wonderful character ! He was my father’s great uncle and so my great great uncle and it seems to me my father inherited his humor and also his gentlemanly ways. They looked quite alike too. It’s such a pleasure to see this. Thank your for posting 😌
Long like Arthur’s genius, (long live Jean-Claude), my father’s humor ❤