Balakirev was outspoken in his opposition to Anton Rubinstein's efforts.

Word came in the summer of 1846 that Rubinstein's father was gravely ill. Rubinstein was left in Berlin while his mother, sister and brother returned to Russia.

After a number of delays, including some difficulties with the censor, Rubinstein's first opera, Dmitry Donskoy ( now lost except for the overture ), was performed at the Bolshoy Theater in St. Petersburg in 1852.

" Van II ": Rubinstein's physical likeness to Ludwig van Beethoven was considered uncanny.

" This resemblance was also felt to be in Rubinstein's keyboard playing.

Sometimes Rubinstein's playing was too much for listeners to handle.

Rubinstein was also adept at improvisation — a practice at which Beethoven had excelled but by Rubinstein's time was on the wane.

Josef Hofmann observed that Rubinstein's fifth finger " was as thick as my thumb — think of it!

Pressman attested to the singing quality of Rubinstein's playing, and much more: " His tone was strikingly full and deep.

One of Rubinstein's greatest secrets was his use of the pedal.

Perhaps somewhat lacking in individuality, Rubinstein's music was unable to compete either with the established classics or with the new Russian style of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

Rubinstein's birth name was Artur Rubinstein, although in English-speaking countries, he preferred to be known as Arthur Rubinstein.

" This ability was often tested by Rubinstein's friends, who would randomly pick extracts from opera and symphonic scores and ask him to play them from memory.

This same year, Rubinstein's mother was killed in a car accident.

This is best captured in the quote taken from Vaughan and Rubinstein's book, Teaching & Learning in Northern Europe 100-1200, " He was called to teach.

The term " exotic option " was popularized by Mark Rubinstein's 1990 working paper ( published 1992, with Eric Reiner ) " Exotic Options ", with the term based either on exotic wagers in Horse racing, or due to the use of international terms such as " Asian option ", suggesting the " exotic Orient ".

At Rubinstein's suggestion, German impresario Hermann Wolff offered career management and to send the boy on a European tour, but Hofmann's father refused to let the boy travel until he was nine years old.

Some have claimed that the marriage was a marketing ploy, including Rubinstein's being able to pass herself off as Helena Princess Gourielli.

One of Rubinstein's numerous mantras was: " There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

There was a private performance at the Moscow Conservatory on 23 March, the first anniversary of Nikolai Rubinstein's death, with the above-named soloists, but Tchaikovsky was still in Italy at the time.

It was long thought that Tchaikovsky initially dedicated the work to Nikolai Rubinstein, and Michael Steinberg writes that Rubinstein's name is crossed off the autograph score.

In Rubinstein's defense, however, Rachmaninoff said that " for every possible mistake may have made, he gave, in return, ideas and musical tone pictures that would have made up for a million mistakes.

Brown suggests that Rubinstein's comments may have deeply shaken him about the concerto, though he did not change the work and finished orchestrating it the following month, and that his confidence in the piece may have been so shaken that he wanted the public to hear it in a place where he would not have to personally endure any humiliation if it did not fare well.

Rubinstein's parents invited Huberman back to their house and the two boys struck up what would become a lifetime friendship.

Several of his themed sets of articles were reissued as monographs ; these covered topics as varied as the original 1876 production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth, the development of the Russian romance ( art song ), music in Russia, and Anton Rubinstein's seminal lectures on the history of piano music of 1888-1889.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

If it was, then it must have been God's intention to translate him at a certain point from time to eternity.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

If this was in fact Mr. Remarque's intention he has achieved a notable failure.

Race-drivers, on the other hand, are quite often killed on the circuit, and since it was obviously Mr. Remarque's intention to establish automobile racing as life in microcosm, one might reasonably have expected him to demonstrate precise knowledge not only of techniques but of mores and attitudes.

But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.

In anorectal abscesses, primary closure healed faster, but 25 % of abscesses healed by secondary intention and recurrence was higher.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.

Christian perfection ( or entire sanctification ), according to Wesley, is " purity of intention, dedicating all the life to God " and " the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.

The intention was to exploit the fresh air ( well away from smoky factories ) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses.

Her friend, Acerronia Polla, was attacked by oarsmen while still in the water, and was either bludgeoned to death or drowned, since she was exclaiming that she was Agrippina, with the intention of being saved, unfortunately she did not know that this was an attempt of Agrippina's life, not a mere accident.

It was Absalon's intention to clear the Baltic Sea of the Wendish pirates who inhabited its southern littoral zone which was later called Pomerania.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.