PUBLISHED: Dec 10, 2013
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Picture: Valery Jacobi - The frivolities in the court of Empress Anna of Russia (1872)
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (November 28 [O.S. November 16] 1829 -- November 20 [O.S. November 8] 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
Work: La Russie, morceaux symphonique (1882)
Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
Conductor: Welisar Gentscheff
German radio broadcast