His first public appearance experienced the prodigy with 13 years in Berlin. So rapidly seem Rubinstein zuzufliegen the subtleties of piano playing, that he thinks he can save the systematic learning of the keys-craft. After a meteoric rise with success in Dresden, Hamburg and Warsaw he breaks 1906 on his first American tour, but evolves into a fiasco. The crisis of the following year, including a failed suicide attempt, comes to an end, as Rubinstein the 15 years younger Horowitz experienced, technically mastered the piano like none before. "I clenched my fists," Rubinstein wrote in his memoirs, "opened them and began to work hard." The survivor retires from the Dolce Vita and start again from scratch. 1937 finally Artur Rubinstein has found "his" sound and travels again to the United States. This time, his tour to triumph and to the starting point of a global career. "The game of no other contemporary pianists radiates so much culture, so much abundance, clear, healthy masculinity and force," says Harold Schonberg, feared critic of the New York Times. Here Rubinstein plays not only the classic repertoire from Brahms to Beethoven, but wins the audience for the moderns as Stravinsky, de Falla and Villa-Lobos. But above all, with his Chopin interpretations Rubinstein earned a reputation as the greatest living pianist. Unlike many other great artists Rubinstein leaves virtuosity with age not to. Incessantly in motion, he pulls the listener on all five continents in its spell. occurs only in Germany Artur Rubinstein after his debut years no longer. In 1914 he had heard and vowed never to return to this country gastieren atrocities of German soldiers. Later, after a large part of his Jewish family had been murdered by the Nazis, he had renewed this oath and up to his death on December 20, 1982 is not broken. Artur Rubinstein was born in Lodz / Poland, died in Geneva / Switzerland and was buried in Jerusalem / Israel.