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| | Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | He studied at the Moscow Conservatory (1885-92) under Zverev (where Skryabin was a fellow pupil) and his cousin Ziloti for piano and Taneyev and Arensky for composition, graduating with distinction as both pianist and composer (the opera Aleko, given at the Bol'shoy in 1893, was his diploma piece). |
 | | These things were not to change, and during the remaining years to the Revolution they provided him with the matenals for a sizable output of operas, liturgical music, orchestral works, piano pieces and songs, even though composition was generally restricted to periods of seclusion between concert engagements. |
 | | As a pianist he was famous for his precision, rhythmic drive, legato and clarity of texture and for the broad design of his performances. |
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