Don Quixote, a musical picture after Cervantes, was written in 1870, the year before Rubinstein's
period as conductor of the Philharmonic concerts in Vienna and a subsequent American tour with
Wieniawski. The work has a clear enough narrative intention, from the chivalrous ambitions of Don Quixote, his love for the imagined Dulcinea del Toboso, through various mistaken adventures to his death, a moment of final pathos.
Rubinstein shows us Don Ouixote's awakening ambitions, as he reads romances of chivalry, dons
his rusty armour and mounts his steed Rocinante. A flock of sheep, mistaken for an army, is routed,
and there is an encounter with three village women, one of whom seems to Don Quixote to be his
lady, Dulcinea. The women laugh at him and run away, leading him to suppose that he needs to prove his valour[용기] further. Don Quixote extends unexpected clemency to a gang of prisoners condemned to the galleys, and they repay him by beating and robbing him. His complaints at the ingratitude of the criminals lead him to forswear chivalry, and he returns home, to die in the presence of his friends, his niece and his house-keeper.
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