【鲁宾斯坦】（Artur Rubinstein，1887～1982）美籍波兰钢琴家。生于波兰罗茨，卒于日内瓦。3岁时即显露出音乐天才，5岁登台演出。后到柏林随巴尔特学钢琴，随布鲁赫学作曲，随凯恩学习音乐理论。11岁时在约阿希姆的指挥下在柏林及欧洲各地演奏莫扎特的钢琴协奏曲。1905年在巴黎举行了6场演奏会。1906年在美国连续举行了75场演奏会。此后又到奥地利、意大利等地巡回演奏。1937年赴美演出，被舆论界公认为当代最杰出的钢琴家。第二次世界大战爆发后定居美国。1946年加入美国籍。鲁宾斯坦毕生献身于钢琴艺术，直至八旬高龄仍频繁出现在舞台上，而且演奏激情不减，精力旺盛。他曾于1956年在美国卡内基音乐厅两个星期内举行5场演奏会，连续弹奏17首钢琴协奏曲；于1962年在上述地点举行了10次音乐会，演奏了89首钢琴曲。鲁宾斯坦的演奏曲目极为广泛，演奏技巧娴熟，具有华丽高贵的气质与细腻典雅的情感，他的演奏能传达出一种难以言传的深遂的情绪和特殊的气息与热情。鲁宾斯坦特别钟情于浪漫主义作品，尤其擅长演奏肖邦的作品。此外，贝多芬、勃拉姆斯、格拉纳多斯、法利亚、德彪西、普朗克与维拉—罗勃斯等人的作品也在他经常演奏的曲目之列。录音代表作有：肖邦《钢琴曲集》，柴科夫斯基《第一钢琴协奏曲》，拉赫玛尼诺夫《第二钢琴协奏曲》，李斯特《第一钢琴协奏曲》与贝多芬5首钢琴协奏曲等。Warm, lyrical, and aristocratic in his interpretations, Artur Rubinstein performed impressively into extremely old age, and he was a keyboard prodigy almost from the time he could climb onto a piano bench. He came from a mercantile rather than a musical family, but fixated on the piano as soon as he heard it. At age three he impressed Joseph Joachim, and by the age of seven he was playing Mozart, Schubert, and Mendelssohn at a charity concert in his hometown. In Warsaw, he had piano lessons with Alexander Róóycki; then in 1897 he was sent to Berlin to study piano with Heinrich Barth and theory with Robert Kahn and Max Bruch, all under Joachim's general supervision. In 1899 came his first notable concerto appearance in Potsdam. Soon thereafter, just barely a teenager, he began touring Germany and Poland.After brief studies with Paderewski in Switzerland in 1903, Rubinstein moved to Paris, where he met Ravel, Dukas, and Jacques Thibaud, and played Saint-Saëns' G minor Concerto to the composer's approval. That work would remain a flashy Rubinstein vehicle for six decades, and it was the concerto he offered in his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1906. His under-prepared American tour was not especially well-received, though, so he withdrew to Europe for further study. Rubinstein became an adept and sensitive chamber musician and accompanist; his 1912 London debut was accompanying Pablo Casals, and during World War I he toured with Eugène Ysaÿe.He gave several successful recitals in Spain during the 1916-1917 season, and soon toured Latin America. Along the way he developed a great flair for Hispanic music; Heitor Villa-Lobos went so far as to dedicate to Rubinstein his Rudepoema, one of the toughest works in the repertory. Although Rubinstein would later be somewhat typecast as a Chopin authority, his readings of Falla, Granados, and Albéniz would always be equally idiomatic.Rubinstein's international reputation grew quickly, although he was by his own account a sloppy technician. In the mid-1930s he withdrew again and drilled himself in technique. By 1937 he reemerged as a musician of great discipline, poise, and polish — qualities he would mostly retain until his farewell recital in London in 1976, at the age of 89. Rubinstein's temperament had sufficient fire for Beethoven but enough poetry for Chopin; his tempos and dynamics were always flexible, but never distorted. His 1960s recordings for RCA of nearly all Chopin's solo piano music have been considered basic to any record collection since their release, and his version of Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain is another classic, as are his various late collaborations with the Guarneri Quartet.Rubinstein became a naturalized American citizen in 1946, but he maintained residences in California, New York, Paris, and Geneva; two of his children were born in the United States, one in Warsaw, and one in Buenos Aires. He had married Aniela Mlynarska in 1932, but womanizing remained integral to his reputation as an irrepressible bon vivant. He maintained that the slogan "wine, women, and song" as applied to him meant 80 percent women and only 20 percent wine and song.Still, there was a serious side to his life. After World War II, he refused ever again to perform in Germany, in response to the Nazi extermination of his Polish family. Rubinstein became a strong supporter of Israel; in gratitude, an international piano competition in his name was instituted in Jerusalem in 1974. His honors included the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society of London, the U.S. Medal of Freedom (1976), and membership in the French Legion of Honor.