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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff [a] [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
In a 1930 letter, Rachmaninoff's brother-in-law Vladimir Satin expressed a feeling of nostalgia for a "lost Russia", thanking him for allowing listeners to live in the "good past" and forget the "bad future". Rachmaninoff became a symbol of an old, nationalistic identity of Russia; many believed he was among the last.
Rachmaninoff's compositions cover a variety of musical forms and genres. Born in Novgorod , Russia in 1873, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Zverev , Alexander Siloti , Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky , and while there, composed some of his most famous works, including the first piano concerto (Op. 1) and the Prelude in C ...
Monna Vanna (Russian: Монна Ванна) is an unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Rachmaninoff had completed Act I in short vocal score, with piano accompaniment, and then he went to ask for permission to set the text in a full three-act treatment.
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Sophia A. Satina and Albert Francis Blakeslee, shown with samples of mold. Satina was born on April 17, 1879, in Tambov, Russia. [1] She was cousin to Sergei Rachmaninoff, and became his sister-in-law after Rachmaninoff married Satina's sister Natalia.
Brothers in Law, a 1955 British novel; Brothers in Law, a 1957 film adaptation; Brothers in Law, a 1962 television series based on the novel; Brothers in Law (Radio series) adapted from the TV series by Richard Waring; The Brothers-in-Law, a Canadian musical group; The Brother-in-Law, an 1817 play by Henry Card
Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1921. Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40, is a major work by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1926.The work exists in three versions.