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	Knowledge King - Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rachmaninov made his first recordings for Edison Records on their "Diamond Disc" records, as at the time the Edison company had the best audio fidelity in recording the piano.
		Rachmaninov was angered, left Edison, and thereafter recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company (and later its successor, RCA Victor), which was pleased to abide by Rachmaninoff's restrictions and proudly advertised him as one of the great artists who recorded for the Victor Company.
		Rachmaninov also made numerous recordings on piano rolls, and was reported to have regarded these as the most accurate reflection of his playing.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/s/se/sergei_rachmaninov.html (777 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portrait of Sergei Rachmaninoff by Konstantin Somov 1925
		Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil'evič Rahmaninov, April 1, 1873–March 28, 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
		("Sergei Rachmaninoff" was the spelling the composer himself used while living in the West throughout the latter half of his life, including when he became a United States citizen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninov (2187 words)

	The Musical Times: Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As a composer Rachmaninov is usually put down as a late survivor of the romantic era, for his harmony was of the nineteenth century, and much of his melody was of an emotional cast favoured by the late romantics.
		Rachmaninov had little contact with the Tchaikovsky of the fourth and fifth Symphonies or the middle movements of the ‘Pathetic.’ For the rest, their likenesses belong to period rather than personality.
		It is to be noted that Rachmaninov’s success with the larger musical public was limited, among his major works, to the second and third Piano Concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, works in which his outlook as a virtuoso made common cause with his skill in musical contrivance and emotional staging.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/obits/194304rachmaninov.html (743 words)

	Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
		Sergei Rachmaninov’s career as the rising star of the Moscow Conservatoire came to an abrupt end in St. Petersburg on the evening of March 27, 1897.
		Rachmaninov was alleged to have sanctioned these cuts himself, but a story survives of when the conductor Eugene Ormandy invited Rachmaninov to cut the symphony for a Philadelphia performance.
		Rachmaninov is at his most energetic in the Scherzo; the vigorous opening theme for horns flying by amid flashing triplet figures and glittering writing for violins and glockenspiel.
	www.classicalnotes.co.uk /notes/rachmaninov2.html (1235 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sergei Rachmaninov was born in 1973 in Oneg, a family estate in the Novgorod district.
		Sergei wasn’t very keen on his studies; he failed many courses and the Conservatoire was considering expulsion.
		In 1885, Sergei’s cousin Alexander Ziloti, a famous pianist and a pupil of Liszt, suggested sending him to the Moscow Conservatoire, to study with Nikolai Zverev, a noted pianist and a strict teacher, whose regimen required that the boy’s piano practice should begin at 6 a.m.
	www.classicalrecords.ru /cr/htm-en/rachmaninov.htm (642 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sergei Rachmaninov was not only one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, but also the last great representative of the Russian Romantic tradition, exemplified especially by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
		Rachmaninov seemed to be about to launch on an assured career, and in 1892 he wrote one of his most popular pieces, the Prelude in C sharp minor, the performance of which as an encore was to become a resented chore for the composer.
		Rachmaninov again abandoned composition, however, when he and his family left Russia for the United States following the revolution in 1917, and the necessities of supporting a household forced him into a career as an international concert pianist.
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	Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sergei Rachmaninov -- whose Third Piano Concerto will be showcased by the QCSO this weekend -- was born in 1873 to a well-endowed mother (in real estate, that is: her dowry included huge tracts of land), and a ne'er-do-well father whose hobbies included adultery and compulsive gambling.
		Fortunately, Sergei's talent at the keyboard earned him the attention of Nikolai Zveryev, a much sought-after teacher who charged top ruble for his tutelage, but always waived tuition for exceptionally gifted children without means to pay.
		Such was the case with Rachmaninov's fugitive father, who by this time had blithely barged back not just into Sergei's life, but his apartment, as well.
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	Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
		Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov was born on 1 April 1873 at Oneg near Novgorod, Russia, to a former Army Officer Vasily Rachmaninov and his wife Lyubov.
		The six children - Sergei was the fourth - were brought up amidst tutors and governesses and it was one of these that first recognized young Sergei's latent musical talent.
		By the time Sergei was nine, all five of the family estates had been sold off to repay his father's debts and the family had to move to St. Petersburg to live in noticeably constrained circumstances.
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	Rachmania - A Brief Personal Account on Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rachmaninov might not have composed at a level that could have earned him a place in music history alongside such giant-figures as J.S. Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven, but his compositions can certainly command passions that are as hot as fevers in the hearts of those who love the piano.
		Rachmaninov begins the concerto with a unison of both hands on the keyboard accompanied by simple harmonies from the orchestra, playing a simple yet daunting theme on which the concerto is built; and the rest of it is simply a showcase for the musical techniques and emotions that no one musician would not envy.
		Rachmaninov’s third piano concerto almost exhausts all the possibilities that emotions can be expressed through the piano, and there could be no better examples than “Rach-3” to demonstrate Rachmaninov’s uniqueness as a composer who storms the heart of all piano-lovers.
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	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: R: Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich
		Romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninov ("Sergey" and "Rachmaninoff" are common variant spellings) was born in Novgorod, Russian in 1873.
		Sergei Rachmaninov · Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at the Classical Music Pages with biography, major works, and cause and effects of moving to America with photograph.
		Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) · Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of orchestral and piano music, and Naxos discography.
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	Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
		For Sergei Rachmaninov it was to provide the seed of his final, and most perfect, work for piano and orchestra.
		The choice was inspired; Rachmaninov, the greatest virtuoso of his own age, must have identified with Paganini, the most brilliant performer of his era – both men driven to the point of exhaustion by the demands of their own artistry, and both exiles.
		The Rhapsody was inspired by Paganini’s personality and playing, but Rachmaninov took his identification with the great violinist a step further, and while legend has it that Paganini was bound by a pact with the Devil, Rachmaninov’s rhapsody is stalked by his own personal spectre, the Dies Irae plainchant.
	www.classicalnotes.co.uk /notes/rachmaninov1.html (808 words)

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		Rachmaninov had developed into a very fine pianist during his time with Zverev, and when he passed the entrance exam to study advanced harmony and composition with Arensky, it looked like he really was blossoming into a talented all-rounder.
		Rachmaninov was devastated by these deaths and there followed a few years of uncertainty and unhappiness, eased by a course of psychotherapy and marriage to his cousin Natalia Satin.
		Although Rachmaninov left only a modest body of works compared to many others, the music he did leave is still adored by audiences today, the great melancholic sweeps of melody and rich harmony and orchestration stirring the hearts of many.
	www.ox.compsoc.net /users/aphelion/old/rach.html (1043 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov : Entertaining Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This particular performance of the Rachmaninov 3rd has attracted an enormous amount of attention, and rightly so considering the pyrotechnics that Argerich generates; the pianism is truly remarkable and this is a...
		This was Rachmaninov's submission to Arensky's composition class at the Moscow conservatoire as part of his final examination.
		Rachmaninov- Piano Concertos 3 and 4- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andre Previn
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	Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov Biography / Biography of Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov Biography Biography
		Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) was a highly successful Russian composer, an unrivaled pianist, and a distinguished conductor.
		Sergei Rachmaninov was born in Novgorod on April 1, 1873, at the estate of his aristocratic, impoverished family.
		Sergei's parents were also musical, and his mother was his first piano teacher.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-sergei-vasilievich-rachmaninov/index.html (252 words)

	The Rachmaninov Lover's Home Page
		His father squandered the famiIy fortune so quickly that Sergey was only nine years old when he saw the estate at Novgorod where they had lived, the last of their property, auctioned off to pay debts.
		In a while, Rachmaninov was able to transfer to the senior division of the Moscow Conservatory, taking more of his classes outside the Zverev household.
		Rachmaninov's characteristic melancholy, his dignified evocation of folk tune (or is it cathedral hymn?) in the simplest orchestral garb -- piano octaves, solo winds in the orchestra -- is immediately effective.
	www.radix.net /~chinatom/rach.html (1567 words)

	INKPOT#106: RACHMANINOV plays Rachmaninov. Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy, Stokowski (Naxos)
		Sergei Rachmanonov was extremely proud to be the first composer to have all his works for piano and orchestra recorded for posterity, and for many years, these recordings have been of immeasurable historical and interpretive benefit for performers and listeners alike.
		A "Rachmaninov Cycle" mounted by the Philadelphia Orchestra at the end of 1939 finally persuaded RCA to take advantage of the situation by recording the composer as soloist with the Philadelphia in the First and Third Concertos, as well as conductor in his Third Symphony.
		Throughout the work, Rachmaninov's combination of power, virtuosity, sensitivity and magical variety of touch are incredible to hear, as though the popular affirmation of the piece had revitalized his recreative powers as well as bolstered his confidence as a composer.
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	Music - Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rachmaninov was born in 1873 and his piano virtuosity was stimulated by the strict teacher Nikolai Zverev.
		Rachmaninov became depressed in 1897, after a messed up premiere of his 'Symphony No. 1'.
		As remarked earlier, Rachmaninov was a very good pianist and he used his talents when he fled to the United States in 1917.
	home.hccnet.nl /arnoud.de.bruijn/html/music/MusicRachmaninov.htm (209 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov : The 24 Preludes
		Sergey Vassilievich Rachmaninov (the name might be spelled "Rachmaninoff" or "Rakhmaninov" was one of the great pianists of all time and the last great Russian Romantic composer.
		In 1888 Rachmaninov graduated to the senior department of the conservatory, studying harmony with Lyadov.
		Rachmaninov's rich-sounding Romantic style was a popular continuation of the tradition of Borodin and Tchaikovsky.
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	INKPOT#103: RACHMANINOV Orchestral Works. Various/Ashkenazy (Decca)
		The orchestral parts to the symphony were discovered in St. Petersburg several months after the composer's death, and he had planned to retire from the concert stage after the 1942-43 season, so he would have had time to revise the symphony had he chosen to do so.
		There, Rachmaninov viewed Arnold Böcklin's then-striking picture The Isle of the Dead, and was inspired by it to write a darkly fervent tone poem worthy of Richard Strauss.
		As fatalistic as Rachmaninov (right) could be - Igor Stravinsky once called the man "six-feet-three of Russian gloom" - it should be no surprise that, along with Mother Russia, images and stories with dark themes drew his greatest inspiration.
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	Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873 - 1943) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After study at the St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories, Sergey Rachmaninov embarked on a career in Russia as a composer, pianist and conductor.
		The second of Rachmaninov's four piano concertos holds an unchallenged position among romantic works in this form, its popularity closely rivalled by the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra.
		Rachmaninov's Prelude in C sharp minor won early popularity that largely outweighed its merits.
	www.naxos.com /composer/rachmani.htm (194 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		n 1909, Rachmaninov (born 1873 in Novogrod, died 1943 in Beverley Hills) returned to Russia after a triumphant concert tour of the US where he was offered the conductorship of the Boston Symphony.
		It is worth noting that up to the 1917 revolution, he composed two monumental works that evoke the essence of Russian spiritualty - the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and the Vespers.
		The Lirtugy of St John Chrysostom, in its present form, has been an integral part of Orthodox practice since the 9th century and is the principal text for worship in the Eastern Rite today.
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	Sergei Rachmaninov Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, also Sergey Rachmaninov or Serge Rakhmaninov (Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов), (April 1, 1873 — March 28, 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
		Born in Semyonovo, near Novgorod into a wealthy family with a strong military background, Rachmaninoff had his first piano lessons with his mother at the family estate at Oneg.
		After a decline in their fortunes, the family moved to Saint Petersburg where Rachmaninoff studied at the conservatory, before going on to Moscow, where he studied piano with Nikolay Zverev and Alexander Siloti (a student of Franz Liszt and Rachmaninoff's cousin).
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Rachmaninov_Sergei.html (815 words)

	Sergei Rachmaninov
		Rachmaninov föddes i den ryska staden Semyonovo 1873.
		Rachmaninovs kärlek till piano var oerhört, det märks väl på hans musik.
		Rachmaninov, med sina jättehänder, kunde dock spela de plockigaste Bach styckena och variera sin klang mycket.
	hemsidor.torget.se /users/o/ottoe/rachmaninov.htm (517 words)

	(e) Sergei Rachmaninov - Elegiac trios for piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His chamber music is certainly less known and diffuse, but in it anyhow the art of the Russian composer is reflected maybe in a more terse manner than in the more famous works where it’s even too much evident the virtuosity – mostly the piano one – sometime even too much emphatic and manifested.
		We can consider these two trios as a kind of revealing miniatures of Rachmaninov’s purer art who, free from demonstrative aims and expressive needs, infuses his own rich melodic inspiration and all his own lyric fervour perfectly fit to describe the "elegiac" character of the two trios.
		The second trio, in three movements, was written in 1893 owing to the deep commotion felt by Rachmaninov at the death of his friend Tchaikovsky; this emotional condition is easily audible in the first movement which contain, mostly in its first part, real moments of tragicalness.
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