[1] But she also worked with many other teachers - 19 in all, including Leopold Godowsky in Berlin, Isidor Philipp in Paris and Tobias Matthay in London - "some celebrated, others obscure, from whom I tried to glean a ray of light".
[2] She made her debut as a pianist in Cologne in 1913, appeared in England as a soloist under Henry Wood, Dan Godfrey and others, and set up her own piano school in London in 1925.
[3] With Arthur Rubinstein and Safanov she helped establish the Russian school of piano playing, emphasising arm weight alongside older finger techniques.
The book was based on the experiences of her brother Harold Rubens, a child prodigy pianist who began lessons with Levinskaya from the age of seven (in 1925) and became her star pupil.
In 1919 Levinskaya was charged with stealing a cloak worth £8 18s 6d from the Marshall & Snelgrove department store in Vere Street, but was later acquitted.