Music Of The Great Composers --

Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 3 Personal Memories In my much-prized interview with Rubinstein, during the period of his concerts in Philadelphia, in the season of 1872-1873, he spoke of Rubini, and told me how he had passed hours in listening to this Italian tenor's voice, with its purity, sweetness and power, and in trying to reproduce its timbre in his playing. It is only with labor and tears bitter as death that the true artist is developed, he said. Fe..