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Rachmaninov never returned to his homeland but in one surprising swansong, a transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Lullaby, he remembered his greatest mentor and his own beginnings. The biography of Sergei Rachmaninoff on Deutsche Grammophon. Read it now.
- Early Life
- Influences & First Compositions
- Life in America
- Rachmaninoff's Noted Works
- Death & Legacy
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (sometimes spelt Rachmaninov or Rakhmaninov) was born in Semyonovo on 1 April 1873. His mother was a trained pianist, and she taught Sergei well enough for him to merit paid lessons with professional teachers. The family was reasonably well off until Rachmaninoff's father got into debt and was obliged to sell the fam...
Rachmaninoff wrote his First Piano Concerto in 1890-1, and his first composition out of the Conservatory was the Prelude in C sharp minor for piano (1892). Rachmaninoff was influenced by earlier composers of Romantic music (around 1790-1910), such as Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), and Richard Stra...
After composing his Third Piano Concerto and premiering it in New York in 1909, Rachmaninoff toured the United States. Regular tours across Europe followed. The composer divided his time between his summer home at Ivanovka and the winter performance tours. This sequence was only interrupted by the First World War (1914-18). Rachmaninoff gave concer...
Rachmaninoff wrote music in a wide variety of forms, including sacred vocal works for performance in the Russian Orthodox Church, concertos, symphonies, preludes, and songs. Rachamaninoff's most important works are: 1. 4 piano concertos 2. 3 symphonies 3. 24 preludes for piano (1892-1910) 4. Spring(1902) 5. Liturgy of St John Chrysostom(1910) 6. Th...
Rachmaninoff's music belongs to the Romantic era, even if the composer himself outlived that period of music. Of this, the composer was fully aware as he once commented: "I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writingand I cannot acquire the new" (Thompson, 178). Rachmaninoff suffered ill health in hi...
- Mark Cartwright
Apr 16, 2023 · At the start of Rachmaninoff’s career his music was considered both progressive and modern – it was only around the time of the First World War, when he was in his forties, that he began rejecting the more severe forms of modernism that were emerging.
- Leah Broad
Rachmaninoff had a house built in Los Angeles that was an exact replica of his original Moscow home. A tall, sometimes severe-looking man, Rachmaninoff seldom smiled in photographs, and was once dubbed a “six-foot scowl.”. Rachmaninoff died from lung cancer after a lifetime of heavy smoking.
May 13, 2018 · When Tchaikovsky died of cholera in 1893, Rachmaninoff was devastated. He wrote Trio elegiaque no. 2 for piano, violin and cello as a tribute, and fell into a depression afterward. He was teaching piano and went on a tour that made him miserable, and not earning very much money.
Oct 16, 2017 · The path to Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances was not an easy one. Settled and financially secure by 1925, Rachmaninoff allowed himself a “sabbatical” year to return to composition, working on ...
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Oct 19, 2021 · October 19, 2021. The Life of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Linda and John uncover details about Rachmaninoff's life, like early influences that stayed with him his entire career, his comeback story after a disastrous symphony premiere, and what led to him emigrating to the United States.
