Rachmaninoffs Recollections

Author : Oskar von Riesemann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317430654
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachmaninoff's Recollections written by Oskar von Riesemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1934, contains the recollections of the varied and coloured life of a great pianist and composer, who is one of the most striking figures of the musical world. Rachmaninoff dictated his memoires to the author of this book, and much of the story is therefore told in the first person. The final chapter is Riesemann’s own contribution. It is an estimate of Rachmaninoff’s qualities as composer; it shows knowledge of all his more important works; and it shows discrimination. The whole book is an authoritative and interesting study of a popular artist.

Author : Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachmaninoff's Recollections, Told to Oskar Von Riesemann written by Sergei Rachmaninoff and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oskar von Riesemann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317430646
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachmaninoff's Recollections written by Oskar von Riesemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1934, contains the recollections of the varied and coloured life of a great pianist and composer, who is one of the most striking figures of the musical world. Rachmaninoff dictated his memoires to the author of this book, and much of the story is therefore told in the first person. The final chapter is Riesemann’s own contribution. It is an estimate of Rachmaninoff’s qualities as composer; it shows knowledge of all his more important works; and it shows discrimination. The whole book is an authoritative and interesting study of a popular artist.

Author : Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachmaninoff's Recollections written by Sergei Rachmaninoff and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1934 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sergei Bertensson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787204340
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sergei Rachmaninoff written by Sergei Bertensson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Scott
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752472429
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachmaninoff written by Michael Scott and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical child of Russia’s golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last of the great Romantics. Scorned by the musical establishment until very recently, his music received hostile reviews from critics and other composers. Conversely, it never failed to find widespread popular acclaim, and today he is one of the most popular composers of all time. Biographer Michael Scott investigates Rachmaninoff’s intense and often melodramatic life, following him from imperial Russia to his years of exile as a wandering virtuoso and his death in Beverly Hills during the Second World War, worn out by his punishing schedule. In this remarkable biography which relates the man to his music, Michael Scott tells the colourful story of a life that spanned two centuries and two continents. His original research from the Russian archives, so long closed to writers from the West, brings us closer to the spirit of a man who genuinely believed that music could be both good and popular, a belief that is now triumphantly vindicated.

Author : Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachmaninoff's Recollections written by Sergei Rachmaninoff and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1934 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Mitchell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145759
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sergei Rachmaninoff written by Rebecca Mitchell and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Philip Ross Bullock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226823741
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachmaninoff and His World written by Philip Ross Bullock and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary musical life than is often thought, and how his deeply felt sense of Russianness coexisted with an appreciation of American and European culture. In particular, the essays document his involvement with intellectual and artistic circles in prerevolutionary Moscow and how the form of modernity they promoted shaped his early output. This volume represents one of the first serious explorations of Rachmaninoff’s successful career as a composer, pianist, and conductor, first in late Imperial Russia, and then after emigration in both the United States and interwar Europe. Shedding light on some unfamiliar works, especially his three operas and his many songs, the book also includes a substantial number of new documents illustrating Rachmaninoff’s celebrity status in America.

Author : Fiona Maddocks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 163936594X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodbye Russia written by Fiona Maddocks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy. In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic “Symphonic Dances.” What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece? Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace. He had already written the music which, today, has made him one of the most popular composers of all time: the second and third Piano Concertos and two symphonies. The story of his years in exile in America and Switzerland has only been told in passing. Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars—from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporaries and polar opposites, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Yet the melancholy of leaving his homeland never lifted. Using a wide range of sources, including important newly translated texts, Fiona Maddocks’s immensely readable book conjures impressions of this enigmatic figure, his friends and the world he encountered. It explores his life as an emigré artist and how he clung to an Old Russia which no longer existed. That forging of past and present meets in his Symphonic Dances (1940), his last composition, written on Long Island shortly before his death in Beverly Hills, surrounded by a close-knit circle of exiles. Goodbye Russia is a moving and prismatic look at Rachmaninoff and his iconic final work.