Rachmaninoff

Life, Works, Recordings
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9312-5
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

comprehensive biography of the virtuoso pianist and legendary composer of piano symphonies

- Rachmaninoff is one of the most popular classical composers and greatest pianists of the 20th century.
- This is the first biography to give a complete picture of all aspects of his life, work and music.
- This edition includes musical examples, both chronological and classified lists of his work and a full discography, including all piano rolls.

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is now widely regarded as one of the greatest 20th-century composers and pianists. In this illuminating and accessible biography, Max Harrison covers the span of Rachmaninoff's life, taking in his career as composer, pianist and conductor, offering full analyses of his scores and a uniquely detailed treatment of his 1919-1942 recordings.

A fascinating account of the man, his life and work, this book sheds much new light on its subject and the ways that Rachmaninoff was viewed during his own time and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Max

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Tasteninstrumente

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Before the beginning
2. The family breaks up
3. Zveref and Moscow
4. Composition starts
5. The break with Zveref
6. To Ivanovka
7. More compositions
8. Towards graduation
9. Aleko and the graduation
10. First moves as 'Free Artist'
11. More productions and Tchaikovsky's death
12. The long road to Symphony No. 1
13. A symphony misunderstood
14. London visit, Moscow cure
15. The Crimea, Italy, Concerto No. 2
16. Composition concludes and there is a marriage
17. Variations, Preludes and a child is born
18. Two operas
19. An abortive revolution, the operas produced
20. Sonata, Symphony, part of an opera
21. The Isle of the Dead and Concerto No. 3
22. America and the Liturgy
23. 1910, more preludes, more conducting
24. Etudes Tableaux, Marietta Shaginian, more songs
25. The Bells and a last sonata
26. World War I, All-Night Vigil, last songs
27. Final composing in Russia, escape from Petrograd
28. The expatriate artist: first concerts, first recordings
29. Rachmaninoff fully established
30. Two more seasons, more recordings
31. Concerto No. 4, Chansons Russes
32. Rachmaninoff the pianist
33. Classic recordings and orchestration by another
34. Senar and LaFolia
35. Rapsodie, Sympony No. 3
36. Four more seasons, major recordings
37. Symphonic Dances
38. Last recordings, a final tour
39. Envoi
Appendices: Chronological list of works
Classified list of works
Discography
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Max Harrison is a musicologist who reviewed for The Times and The Gramophone from 1967-90, has written widely on jazz, and contributed to the 1980 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and other reference works.