William Beatty-Kingston in Austria - 1868
from Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, page 219:
It is, perhaps, absurd to speak of his [Anton Rubinstein] touch as though it were a special capability; for he is possessed of every imaginable sort of touch, from the deep and clinging, which has the faculty of extracting the maximum breadth and length of tone from a tense wire, to the light and feathery, such as notes might be expected to yield were the keyboard tripped over by fairy feet or brushed by butterflies' wings. His flexibility is the more amazing that the physical aspect of his fingers, which are short, thick, and blunt, affords no … more >>
William Beatty-Kingston, Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character, volume 1 (London, 1887), p. 219. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1448317199171 accessed: 5 October, 2024
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Experience Information
Date/Time | 1868 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private |