Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873 — 1943
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff’s compositional output and he used his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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According to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924), the important New York music publishers and instrument importers Carl Fischer, Inc. issued “many serious works” by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The firm, founded in 1872, was noted for the “excellence of editorial and typographical work” in its publications of works by significant European and American composers.