Talk:Anton Rubinstein

message: Did Rubinstein suffer from Ptosis? Most images of him display very drooped eyelids. Also, did he suffer from Strabismus? Such images also show his eyes to squint diagonally upwards. Any proper insight would be helpful.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.224.133 (talk) 16:23, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Health and medical condition

message: The second movement from Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto no. 2 in F major, op. 35 is really great and I've been looking on the web for any comments on it --I don't seem to have been able to spot any so far.
At around the 5 to 6th minute it has a romantic melody, very nice and very lyrical, that lasts only for just a little. It's such pieces, short élans of lyricism and beauty within musical pieces that are like little islands in the middle of the ocean and that, because of this, sound even mystical --another one, I recollect, in Mozart's last string quartets (Quator en ré mineur K421, second movement Menuetto [Allegretto]).--Wikichris 14:30, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I've reviewed this article as part of the Composers project review of its B-class articles.  This is a B-class article, but its composer-related content is superficial, and could use expansion.  My full review is on the comments page; questions and comments should be left here or on my talk page. Magic♪piano 16:53, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Composer project review

message: I removed this because it was not in fact as stated the cover of Rubinstein's Melody in F, but the cover of some other work (a waltz in fact, whereas the Melody is in duple time) by another composer. --Smerus (talk) 14:01, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melody in F picture 

message: Part of the problem with this article is its extreme dependence on Schonberg and Sachs for references - chatty but not very scholarly and often oriented to praise rather than analysis. And Taylor is very dull. Needs input from Grove,  and surely Taruskin must have something worth quoting?--Smerus (talk) 06:09, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Better late than never on a response to this, right? Taylor is truly very dull, thus hard to wade through but unfortunately the only detailed source available in English.  Taruskin has little, if anything, to say about Rubinstein. (Heavens, the man can barely stand Tchaikovsky and places much more emphasis on Stravinsky and The Five in the writings I've seen.) Schonberg and Sachs were the only sources available at the time I last worked on this article extensively. Eventually, I might revamp it using info from Taylor and take another look through Grove at that time but that is a long-term possibility, not one for the immediate present. However, Wikipedia is supposed to be the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, for better or worse, and not simply carp about. Hint, hint. On a positive note, the last time we had this run-around was on Tchaikovsky and that resulted in an infinitely better article (with a decent Music section—finally) so please take my aside with a grain of salt and I'll take your comment as potential food for thought. Jonyungk (talk) 18:45, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

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