My Young Years
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- My Young Years
- Author
- Artur Rubinstein
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1973
- Extent
- 478 pages
- ISBN
- 0394468902
- Language
- English
- Type
- Biography / performance history
- Subject
- Artur Rubinstein
SCOPE & CONTENT
My Young Years is a substantial biographical source on Artur Rubinstein. Autobiographical account from childhood in Łódź through the First World War, with extensive first-hand testimony on Berlin, Paris, Joachim, Paderewski, early concert life and Rubinstein’s formation as a pianist. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative but as evidence for performance history, professional networks, repertory, institutions and reception where those elements are present in the source.
RESEARCH VALUE
Its principal research value is the combination of biographical chronology with evidence about Artur Rubinstein’s artistic work. First-person memoirs and near-contemporary accounts are identified as testimony rather than neutral fact, while later scholarly biographies are useful for checking chronology, correspondence, recordings and received anecdotes against documentary evidence.
BIOGRAPHICAL SCOPE
Autobiographical account from childhood in Łódź through the First World War, with extensive first-hand testimony on Berlin, Paris, Joachim, Paderewski, early concert life and Rubinstein’s formation as a pianist.
RESEARCH USE
This curated record improves retrieval by title, author and subject name, and preserves edition-specific bibliographic information where it can be established safely. The physical document is never renamed or overwritten by this enrichment layer.
- Catalogue completeness
- 8 / 10 core bibliographic fields