Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff

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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil'evič Rahmaninov) (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is recognised as a prominent figure in late Romantic-era music, with a style that evolved from early influences such as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov to a more individual approach characterised by lyrical melodies, expressive harmonies, and complex textures. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sergei+Rachmaninoff">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

• “The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.”
• “I repeat what I said to you back in Russia: you are, in my opinion, the greatest composer of our time.”
• “A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.”
• “I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.”
• “Although it may seem incredible, this cure helped me. At the beginning of the summer I began to compose... New musical ideas began to stir with me-far more than I needed for my concerto. By the autumn I had finished the Adagio and Finale... The Two movements I played... at a charity concert... They had a gratifying success... By the Spring I had finished the first movement of the concerto... Out of gratitude, I dedicated it to Nikolay Dahl.”
• “My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”

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