CHAPTER VII

ANTON RUBINSTEIN

Early life and education. His début as a prodigy pianist. Musical studies in Berlin. Court pianist at St. Petersburg. His early operas. _Dmitri Donskoi_ and _Thomoushka Dourachok_. Imperial Russian Musical Society. Biblical operas, _The Tower of Babel_, _The Maccabees_, _Paradise Lost_, _The Shulamite_. Secular and national operas, _The Demon_, _Nero_, and _The Merchant Kalashnikov_. Historical Concerts. Rubinstein's opportunism. Estimate of his work and influence......162