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Author | : Sergei Bertensson |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1787204340 |
Throughout his career as composer, conductor, and pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was an intensely private individual. When Bertensson and Leyda’s 1956 biography appeared, it lifted the veil of secrecy from several areas of Rachmaninoff’s life, especially concerning the genesis of his compositions and how their critical reception affected him. The authors consulted a number of people who knew Rachmaninoff, who worked with him, and who corresponded with him. Even with the availability of such sources and full access to the Rachmaninoff Archive at the Library of Congress, Bertensson and Leyda were tireless in their pursuit of privately held documents, particularly correspondence. The wonderfully engaging product of their labors masterfully incorporates primary materials into the narrative. Almost half a century after it first appeared, this volume remains essential reading. Sergei Bertensson, who knew Rachmaninoff, published other works on music and film, often with a documentary emphasis.
Author | : Nikolaĭ Bazhanov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
Biography of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov.
Author | : Robert Rimm |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574670727 |
"The recordings made by Marc-Andre Hamelin in recent years have cast new light on an extraordinary group of composers - Alkan, Busoni, Feinberg, Godowsky, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Sorabji - whose works heralded a Golden Age of virtuosic writing for the piano." "The Eight, as author Robert Rimm has termed these composer-pianists, have much in common, traits shared in our own age with Marc-Andre Hamelin, their foremost interpreter. For all their evident differences of age, nationality, and philosophy, they each created music of unprecedented ingenuity - often complex and of immense scale - that stretched the limits of the piano's capabilities. And all were genuine virtuosos with the technical resources to play these demanding works in public." "The volume includes rare photographs and concludes with an extensive bibliography, listings of the complete solo piano works of The Eight, and discographies of their solo piano recordings. In exploring the art of those who knew their instrument both as composers and as pianists, this book serves, in the words of pianist Stephen Hough, "both as a fascinating, exhaustive study of the riches of the past and as a stimulating inspiration for the future.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Rebecca Mitchell |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2022-06-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1789145759 |
Drawing extensively on Russian-language sources, a concise yet comprehensive survey of the life and work of one of classical music’s great composers. Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not always been so admired by critics. Detractors have long perceived Rachmaninoff as part of an outdated Romantic tradition from a bygone Russian world, aloof from the modernist experimentation of more innovative contemporaries such as Igor Stravinsky. In this new assessment, Rebecca Mitchell resituates Rachmaninoff in the context of his time, bringing together the composer and his music within the remarkably dynamic era in which he lived and worked. Both in Russia and later in America, Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world. This concise yet comprehensive biography will interest general readers as well as those more familiar with this giant of Russian classical music.
Author | : Stephen Downes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2010-06-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521767571 |
Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.
Author | : Andreas Wehrmeyer |
Publisher | : Haus Pub. |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Accessible and affordable illustrated biography
Author | : John Culshaw |
Publisher | : London : Dobson |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Valeria Z. Nollan |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2022-10-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1666917605 |
Valeria Z. Nollan’s biography of perhaps the finest pianist of the twentieth century plunges readers into Rachmaninoff’s complex inner world. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul is the first biography of Rachmaninoff in English that presents him in the fullness of his Russian identity. As someone whose own life in Russian emigration ran in parallel ways to Rachmaninoff’s own—and whose meetings with the composer’s grandson in Switzerland informed her work—Nollan brings important cultural insights into her observations of the activities of this generation of creative artists. She also traces the intricacies of Rachmaninoff’s relations with the women closest to him—whose imprints are palpable in his compositions—and introduces a mystery woman whose existence challenges our established narrative of his life.
Author | : Caroline Brooke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195309522 |
Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.
Author | : Robert E. Cunningham Jr. |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2000-10-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 031309540X |
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical works, some chamber works, and numerous songs. This guide catalogues his numerous works and performances, provides a detailed bibliography, and includes a discography of recordings released within the last half-century. Cross-referenced throughout, this volume should appeal to music and Rachmaninoff scholars who are looking for a comprehensive guide to further research.