Giullian, Jon C.Blauberg, Nataliia2025-01-142025-01-142021https://hdl.handle.net/1808/35798This document is a 2021 English translation of an article, cited below, that was originally published in Russian in 2012: Blauberg, Natallia, "Slagaemaia uspekha Iosifa Gofmana v Rossii (1895-1913) po materialam pressy tekh let." In Muzykal'no-ispolnitel'skoe i pedagogicheskoe iskusstvo XiX-XX vekov: ideii, lichnosti, shkoly: Sbornik statei po materialam mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoj konferentsii, Sankt:Peterburg, Rossiia: Sankt-Peterburgskaia gosudarstvennaia konservatoriia (akademiia) imeni N.A. Rimskogo-Korsakova, Kafedara medtodiki fortepiannogo ispolnitel'stva, pedagogiki i specializirovannogo obshchego kursa fortepiano, 2012.This article describes the success of Josef Hofmann's performance tours in Russia from 1895-1913, based on sources in the Russian press during those years. The article demonstrates that Josef Hoffman enjoyed extraordinary success as a performer in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. In addition to performances in Moscow and St. Petersburg, he traveled throughout the the country, winning over audience wherever he went and was dubbed the "king of pianists."Josef HoffmannPianistRussiaPolandTranslationopenAccess