Recordings of the great Anton Rubinstein ( Josef Hofmanns teacher) AT THE PIANO (from 1890)

A discussion follows of these recordings, that would have been made when Rubinstein was about sixty years old, two years before he had accepted Josef Hofmann as his only private pupil, the two meeting for 42 sessions in Dresden s Hotel d Europe. If you know of Hofmann s oftenastonishing recordings, consider Hofmann s comments about Anton Rubinstein to Hofmann s pupil, Abram Chasins: Im very sorry for you that you never heard my master. Why Im a child all of us put together are infants compared t