Die Kinder der Heide
Music by Anton Rubinstein · libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal · premiered 1861
Die Kinder der Heide (The Children of the Moorland) is a four-act opera by Anton Rubinstein, to a libretto by Salomon Mosenthal, based on a verse novel by the Hungarian poet Carl Beck.
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About the Composer
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, romanized: Anton Grigoryevich Rubinshteyn; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1829 – 20 November [O.S. 8 November] 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks among the great 19th-century keyboard virtuosos. He became most famous for his series of historical recitals, seven enormous, consecutive concerts covering the history of piano music. Rubinstein played this series throughout Russia and Eastern Europe and in the United States when he toured there.…
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Other Operas by Anton Rubinstein
- Dmitry Donskoy (1852)
- Fomka the Fool (1853)
- Feramors (1862)
- Der Thurm zu Babel (1869)
- Die Maccabäer (1872)
- Christus (1887)