Annabelle Whitestone, Baroness Weidenfeld, (born October 1944) is an English former concert

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working with classical music

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s including Ingpen & Williams,

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, Wilfrid Van Wyck, the

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and Conciertos Daniel in Madrid Harvey Sachs Rubinstein: A Life The Polish-American pianist Arthur Rubinstein credited Whitestone with assisting the careers of two of his protégés, François-René Duchâble and

Janina Fialkowska Janina Fialkowska, (born May 7, 1951) is a Canadian classical pianist. A specialist of the Classic and Romantic repertoires, for more than thirty years she has appeared regularly with professional orchestras around the world, often performing the ...

, as well as introducing him to the chamber music of Mozart,

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, and

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

"with all sorts of combinations of string and wind instruments which I never even heard." In 1977, the 90-year-old Rubinstein left his wife after 45 years of marriage for Whitestone and lived with her in

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, Switzerland, until he died in 1982. Whitestone helped Rubinstein to write the second volume of his autobiography, ''My Many Years'', which he dedicated to her. Rubinstein's original collaborator, Tony Madigan, whom he met in

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, transcribed the first phase of the book. Whitestone convened ''Remembering Rubinstein'', a day of talks and concerts at the Royal Academy of Music on 22 January 2008, to honour the pianist "who once sold as many records as rock stars and was as much at ease in the

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as he was with his chums Picasso and Charlie Chaplin." Lady Weidenfeld is a member of the advisory board of the

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and the

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, a member of the board of directors of the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society, and a member of the Honorary Advisory Board of the Jewish Music Institute SOAS. Lady Weidenfeld also is the manager of concert pianist

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. Annabelle Whitestone was married to British publisher

Lord Weidenfeld George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, (13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016) was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong Zionist and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, ...

from 1992 until he died in 2016.

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