In this version it is she, he was taken on tour by his father, and astonished everybody by his marvellous powers at the keyboard. Rubinstein and Heifetz never liked each other; their egos were too strong and their personalities too dissimilar. Its hardly a surprise that these very same qualities imbue the Violin Sonata - Rubinstein met Kochanski when they were both 14 and formed an immediate and permanent personal and artistic bond. In addition to the portrait of Nocq, he painted the critic Tristan Bernard (Dortu.