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Rachmaninov: the 'six-foot scowl' who gave us some of classical music's most breathtaking moments
Sergey Rachmaninov: his stock has risen far since , when the fifth edition of Grove’s Dictionary confidently predicted that ‘the enormous popular success some few of Rachmaninov’s works had in his lifetime is not likely to last’. In the intervening years, not only have those few works maintained their place in the repertory, but also many others previously disregarded or unknown have gained a wide and keen following.
Read on for an introduction to the life and music of Sergey Rachmaninov, who has gone from one of classical music's also-rans to one of our best-loved composers.
Who was Rachmaninov?
Sergey Rachmaninov () was a Russian-American composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Excelling in two spheres, Rachmaninov was certainly one of the finest pianists of his (or perhaps any) era, and was also perhaps the last great flowering of Romanticism in Russian classical musi
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At age 19, Sergei Rachmaninoff (–) wrote his Op. 3, Morceaux de Fantaisie, including as its second movement, the Prelude in C sharp minor that would haunt him for years. Even considering the fame of the Prelude, all of the parts of the Op. 3 have been described as ‘miniature masterpieces’. Rachmaninoff had just graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and was about to start his public career as a composer/pianist. Looking within this piece that requires a virtuoso touch, we can see so much of the music that was to pour out of his creative pen.
Sergei Rachmaninoff,
The first movement Élégie requires that the pianist rein in the temptation to over-exaggerate the emotion of the del av helhet lest it becomes sentimental or maudlin.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 &#; No. 1. Élégie in E-Flat Minor (Boris Bloch, piano)
The Prelude, the most famous movement from this work of Rachmaninoff’s, opens with the same kind of dramatic statement as Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concer
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist ist, and conductor of the late Romantic period.
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist ist, and conductor of the late Romantic period. See less
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