Rachmaninoff Composer Pianist Conductor

Author : Barrie Martyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351552424

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"Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor " by Barrie Martyn Pdf

This study is the first to consider all three of Rachmaninoff's careers in detail. After surveying his place in Russian musical history and his creative activity, the author examines, with musical examples, each working chronological order against the background of the composer's life. Among the the many subjects upon which new light is shed are the operas, the songs, and the religious music. Rachmaninoff's remarkable career as a pianist, his style of playing and repertoire are analysed along with his historically important contribution to the gramophone and his work for the reproducing piano. The book includes a survey of his activity as a conductor. There are extensive references to Russian sources and the first appearance of a complete Rachmaninoff disconography is included. This book is the only comprehensive study in any language of the three aspects of Rachmaninoff's musical career and is a stimulating read for music lovers everywhere.

Author : Barrie Martyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Composers
ISBN : OCLC:654937015

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Rachmaninoff by Barrie Martyn Pdf

Author : Sergei Bertensson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787204348

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Sergei Rachmaninoff by Sergei Bertensson Pdf

Throughout his career as composer, conductor, and pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was an intensely private individual. When Bertensson and Leyda’s 1956 biography appeared, it lifted the veil of secrecy from several areas of Rachmaninoff’s life, especially concerning the genesis of his compositions and how their critical reception affected him. The authors consulted a number of people who knew Rachmaninoff, who worked with him, and who corresponded with him. Even with the availability of such sources and full access to the Rachmaninoff Archive at the Library of Congress, Bertensson and Leyda were tireless in their pursuit of privately held documents, particularly correspondence. The wonderfully engaging product of their labors masterfully incorporates primary materials into the narrative. Almost half a century after it first appeared, this volume remains essential reading. Sergei Bertensson, who knew Rachmaninoff, published other works on music and film, often with a documentary emphasis.

Author : Barrie Martyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351552431

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Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor by Barrie Martyn Pdf

This study is the first to consider all three of Rachmaninoff's careers in detail. After surveying his place in Russian musical history and his creative activity, the author examines, with musical examples, each working chronological order against the background of the composer's life. Among the the many subjects upon which new light is shed are the operas, the songs, and the religious music. Rachmaninoff's remarkable career as a pianist, his style of playing and repertoire are analysed along with his historically important contribution to the gramophone and his work for the reproducing piano. The book includes a survey of his activity as a conductor. There are extensive references to Russian sources and the first appearance of a complete Rachmaninoff disconography is included. This book is the only comprehensive study in any language of the three aspects of Rachmaninoff's musical career and is a stimulating read for music lovers everywhere.

Author : Robert E. Cunningham Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313095405

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Sergei Rachmaninoff by Robert E. Cunningham Jr. Pdf

Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical works, some chamber works, and numerous songs. This guide catalogues his numerous works and performances, provides a detailed bibliography, and includes a discography of recordings released within the last half-century. Cross-referenced throughout, this volume should appeal to music and Rachmaninoff scholars who are looking for a comprehensive guide to further research.

Author : Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:49015000703224

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Rachmaninoff's Recollections, Told to Oskar Von Riesemann by Sergei Rachmaninoff Pdf

Author : Robert Cunningham
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313309076

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Sergei Rachmaninoff by Robert Cunningham Pdf

Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical works, some chamber works, and numerous songs. This guide catalogues his numerous works and performances, provides a detailed bibliography, and includes a discography of recordings released within the last half-century. Cross-referenced throughout, this volume should appeal to music and Rachmaninoff scholars who are looking for a comprehensive guide to further research.

Author : Philip Ross Bullock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226823751

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Rachmaninoff and His World by Philip Ross Bullock Pdf

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary musical life than is often thought, and how his deeply felt sense of Russianness coexisted with an appreciation of American and European culture. In particular, the essays document his involvement with intellectual and artistic circles in prerevolutionary Moscow and how the form of modernity they promoted shaped his early output. This volume represents one of the first serious explorations of Rachmaninoff’s successful career as a composer, pianist, and conductor, first in late Imperial Russia, and then after emigration in both the United States and interwar Europe. Shedding light on some unfamiliar works, especially his three operas and his many songs, the book also includes a substantial number of new documents illustrating Rachmaninoff’s celebrity status in America.

Author : Max Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826493122

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Rachmaninoff by Max Harrison Pdf

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

Author : Robert Matthew-Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCSD:31822015311244

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Rachmaninoff by Robert Matthew-Walker Pdf

Author : Fiona Maddocks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781639365944

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Goodbye Russia by Fiona Maddocks Pdf

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy. In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic “Symphonic Dances.” What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece? Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace. He had already written the music which, today, has made him one of the most popular composers of all time: the second and third Piano Concertos and two symphonies. The story of his years in exile in America and Switzerland has only been told in passing. Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars—from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporaries and polar opposites, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Yet the melancholy of leaving his homeland never lifted. Using a wide range of sources, including important newly translated texts, Fiona Maddocks’s immensely readable book conjures impressions of this enigmatic figure, his friends and the world he encountered. It explores his life as an emigré artist and how he clung to an Old Russia which no longer existed. That forging of past and present meets in his Symphonic Dances (1940), his last composition, written on Long Island shortly before his death in Beverly Hills, surrounded by a close-knit circle of exiles. Goodbye Russia is a moving and prismatic look at Rachmaninoff and his iconic final work.

Author : Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 025321145X

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The Pianist's Bookshelf by Maurice Hinson Pdf

"This useful volume should be on every pianist's bookshelf." --Piano & Keyboard "... a unique and valuable tool for teachers, students, performers... " --Library Journal The Pianist's Bookshelf comes to the rescue of pianists overwhelmed by the abundance of books, videos, and other works about the piano. In this clear, easy-to-use presentation, Maurice Hinson surveys hundreds of resource materials, providing clear, practical annotations for each item, thus saving the user hours of precious library time. In addition to the main listing of entries, the book has several topical indexes.

Author : David Pogue,Scott Speck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781119049746

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Classical Music For Dummies by David Pogue,Scott Speck Pdf

Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms, oh, my! The beginner's guide to classical music Classical Music For Dummies is a friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide to composers, instruments, orchestras, concerts, recordings, and more. Classical music is widely considered one of the pinnacles of human achievement, and this informative guide will shows you just how beautiful and rewarding it can be. You'll learn how Bach is different from Beethoven, how Mozart is different still, and why not all "classical" music is actually Classical if it's really Baroque or Romantic. You'll be introduced to the composers and their work, and discover the groundbreaking pieces that shake the world every time they're played. Begin building your classical music library with the essential recordings that define orchestral, choral, and operatic beauty as you get acquainted with the orchestras and musicians that bring the composers to life. Whether you want to play classical music or just learn more about it, Classical Music For Dummies will teach you everything you need to know to get the most out of this increasingly popular genre. Distinguish flute from piccolo, violin from viola, and trumpet from trombone Learn the difference between overtures, requiems, arias, and masses Explore the composers that shaped music as we know it Discover the recordings your music library cannot be without Classical music has begun sneaking into the mainstream — if your interest has been piqued, there's never been a better time to develop an appreciation for this incredibly rich, complex, and varied body of work. Classical Music For Dummies lays the groundwork, and demonstrates just how amazing classical music can be.

Author : Robert Rimm
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574670721

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The Composer-pianists by Robert Rimm Pdf

"The recordings made by Marc-Andre Hamelin in recent years have cast new light on an extraordinary group of composers - Alkan, Busoni, Feinberg, Godowsky, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Sorabji - whose works heralded a Golden Age of virtuosic writing for the piano." "The Eight, as author Robert Rimm has termed these composer-pianists, have much in common, traits shared in our own age with Marc-Andre Hamelin, their foremost interpreter. For all their evident differences of age, nationality, and philosophy, they each created music of unprecedented ingenuity - often complex and of immense scale - that stretched the limits of the piano's capabilities. And all were genuine virtuosos with the technical resources to play these demanding works in public." "The volume includes rare photographs and concludes with an extensive bibliography, listings of the complete solo piano works of The Eight, and discographies of their solo piano recordings. In exploring the art of those who knew their instrument both as composers and as pianists, this book serves, in the words of pianist Stephen Hough, "both as a fascinating, exhaustive study of the riches of the past and as a stimulating inspiration for the future.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671638375

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Great Pianists by Harold C. Schonberg Pdf

Surveys the careers and personalities of the great pianists from Clementi and Mozart to the present day.