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Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (Old Viennese Dances in German) is a set of three short pieces for violin and piano composed by Austrian-American violinist Fritz Kreisler.The three pieces are titled Liebesfreud (Love's Joy), Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow), and Schön Rosmarin (Lovely Rosemary).
Rachmaninoff's compositions cover a variety of musical forms and genres. Born in Novgorod , Russia in 1873, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Zverev , Alexander Siloti , Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky , and while there, composed some of his most famous works, including the first piano concerto (Op. 1) and the Prelude in C ...
Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Daisies original for voice and piano: Маргаритки, Op. 38, No. 3 (1916) Polka Italienne original for piano Preghiera (Prayer) 1940: original from the Piano Concerto No. 2: 18th Variation from Paganini Rhapsody original for piano and orchestra 6 Romances, Op. 4: No. 3, V molchan'i nochi taynoy (When night descends)
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff [a] [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) 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.
Thirteen Preludes (Russian: Тринадцать прелюдий, Trinadtsat' prelyudiy), Op. 32, is a set of thirteen preludes for solo piano, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1910. It complements his earlier Prelude in C ♯ minor, Op. 3/2, and 10 Preludes, Op. 23, to complete the full set of 24 Preludes in all 24 major and minor keys.
Rachmaninoff in front of a giant Redwood tree, California, 1919 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. [1] 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.
The tune was a favourite of Rachmaninoff's father, Vassily (the "W.R." in the title refers to his father's initials in the German transliteration, Wassily Rachmaninoff), but it is not known whether Rachmaninoff knew its true author to be Franz Behr, or whether he believed that the melody was concocted by his father.
Rachmaninoff at the Ivanovka estate, 1910. The Études-Tableaux ("study pictures"), Op. 33, is the first of two sets of piano études composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff.They were intended to be "picture pieces", essentially "musical evocations of external visual stimuli".