The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-21

of his death was heart disease. He was within ten days of sixty-four years of age.
 Rubinstein was born at Wechwoty- metz, on the Roumanian frontier, on November 30, 1886. While yet a child
 he studied the piano at Moscow under Alexis Villoing. He was an infant phe- onmenon before that sort of thing had become quite as common as it is nowa- days, and made his first public appear
 ance when he was barely eight years of age.
 When he was only ten he went to
 Paris and performed at several con-
 certs, which brought him to the notice of Liszt, who thought highly of his genius and gave him good advice and encouragement. The next few years of his life were taken up with visits to England, Swe- den and Germany. In Berlin he stud jed composition under Dehn. On the completion of his regular studies he be- came a teacher, living first in the Pri1s- sian capital and then in Vienna. { | On his return to his native country he became official pianist to the Grand Duchess Helena, and then director of the concerts of the Russian Musical so- ciety. -+@ In 1863 he visited Paris and London, and in 1s72-3 he visited the United
 States. Since 1867 he held no post, but
 spent his time in travelling and com posing. Among his operas are "Dimitri Donskoi," Les Chasseurs Siberiens," |"
 Nero" "Ivan Kalashorikoff," "Le ven-
 geance," Tom le Fou," Les Enfants des Bruyeres," and "Lalla Rookh,"
 most of which were represented in St. Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna and some of them in London.
 His oratorio Paradise Lost" and his
 sacred drama "The Maccabees" have frequently been performed. The jubi- lee of his public service was celebrated in St. Petersburg by a fete on Novem-
 Der IS, 1S89 He was ennobled by Czar Alexander II. in 1869, and in 1887 he re- ceived from the president of the French republic the decoration of the Legion of Honor.
 The following is description of Ru- binstein as he appeared on the occasion of his jubilee. Said his visitor:
 T expected to find the great Russo Jewish tone master bearing the visible marks of his active life. But I was quickly undeceived. His stalwart fig ure rose in greeting, the figure of an athlete or soldier-erect, vigorous, muscular. His head and face were leonine more so even than the head and face of Lyol Tolstoi."
 Rubinstein's eyes were small, but of piercing intentness, overshadowed by beetling brows. His beardless face, both in feature and expression, was al- most a counterpart of the Beethoven of the sculptors, with which we are all familiar.
 Rubinstein's father had absolutely mo musical taste and was bitterly disap- pointed when his son determined to take to the musical career which was to make him honored everywhere.
 Rubinstein used to explain his cos nopolitanism by saying that M. villo- ing, his first teacher, was a Frenchman by birth, al Russian by adoption and had received his musical education from John Field, who was an Irish man.
 The sorrow of Rubinstein's life, for which boxes full Of decorations and the making of big fortunes were no consol- ation, lay in the fact that there was a big disproportion between his success assa composer and as a pianist. In this respect he was like Liszt. Both, in spite of the enthusiasm of their follow CTS, saw that the better part of them would pass away forever when the mag ical fingers became quiet in death.