BENNO MOISEIVITCH was only nine years old when he won the Rubinstein prize for pianpforto playing, as a pupil of the Imperial Academy of Music in his native city of Odessa. But he was wise enough not to let that early success launch him on the career of a child prodigy ; for five year3 more he continued his studies, there, going at the age of fourtesn to Leschetizky in Vienna.
He made his first appearenco in England four years later-at Heading-and when, in the following. Spring (1909) ho played at a Queen's Hall Concert in London, his success was immediate. Since then, ho has won a distinguished place among the foremost pianists of today.