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The first movement is a compact sonata-form, the slow movement rondo-like (the similarity to one melody by Rachmaninoff is coincidental, as the latter was not written until some thirty years later). A minatory final march with variations ends with a Coda that revisits earlier material. This was the only Medtner sonata that Rachmaninoff performed.
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 ...
Birdman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack for the 2014 film Birdman. It includes solo jazz percussion throughout the film and extended segments of classical music taken from various composers including Mahler, Ravel, Rachmaninov, and John Adams. Several jazz compositions by Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser and Joan Valent ...
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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.
Geoffrey Norris (born 19 September 1947) is an English musicologist and music critic.His scholarship focuses on Russian composers; in particular, Norris is a leading scholar on the life and music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, about whom he has written in numerous articles and a 1976 book-length study.
Ballets to the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff (2 P) C. Chamber music by Sergei Rachmaninoff (8 P) O. Operas by Sergei Rachmaninoff (5 P) P.
The following is a list of modernist composers.. In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and ...