Artur Rubinstein è stato un pianista polacco ampiamente considerato uno dei più grandi virtuosi del pianoforte del XX secolo. Ha ottenuto il plauso internazionale per le sue interpretazioni di Frédéric Chopin e Johannes Brahms, nonché per la sua promozione della musica spagnola. La sua maestria tecnica e la profonda intuizione musicale gli hanno permesso di trasmettere l'intera gamma emotiva delle opere eseguite. L'eredità di Rubinstein perdura attraverso le sue registrazioni, ispirando generazioni attuali e future di musicisti e ascoltatori.
Interesantně napsané vzpomínky jedno z největších novodobých pianistů, který proslul nejen svým virtuózním uměním, ale i "bohatýrským" životem, v němž nechyběla četná milostná dobrodružství a nevázané pijatiky, končící nočním flámem. Tato kniha mapuje počáteční fázi jeho života, kterou končí rokem 1916.
Rubinstein's memoir is the continuation of his first earlier work which dealt with his childhood and early adult years. This work covers the year 1917 to 1980. It opens with an account of his South American tour, then goes on to tell of his brief time in New York. It then gives much space to his years in Paris in the 1920's and 1930's. It goes on to tell of his meeting his future wife Nela, their feeling the Gestapo in France and settling in Hollywood. As in Paris Rubinstein rapidly establishes himself as desired social figure and mingles with the social elite.Above all of course Rubinstein is a great master pianist. And he has much to say about the way an artist must use the gift which he has been given. This is a rich work and one most highly recommended.
The personal recollections of the piano virtuoso provide a record of his life and creative development from his childhood days in Poland to the years of the First World War.