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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 ...
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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.
Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1906. The Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27, is a four-movement composition for orchestra written from October 1906 to April 1907 by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. The premiere was performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 26 January 1908, with the composer conducting. Its duration is ...
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.
On one occasion, Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto was performed, with Arkadie Kouguell as soloist and conductor. The audience were informed that the dedicatee of the concerto, Dahl, was a member of the viola section of the orchestra, and they asked him to rise and take a bow. [3] He died in Beirut in 1939.