Rachmaninoff S Peasant

Author : Joslyn Chase
Publisher : Joslyn Chase
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000023899

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Rachmaninoff's Peasant by Joslyn Chase Pdf

These stories appear in the short story collection, What Leads A Man To Murder Two stories from prize-winning author, Joslyn Chase Rachmaninoff’s Peasant In the high-stakes world of Kristelhof Fine Arts Academy, pianist Georgia Findlay plays to win. The high-tension level of talent, drive, and competition on campus keeps students scrambling for position, but Georgia never misses a quarter of a beat. Not even the death of her best mentor slows her down. The story of a cutthroat rivalry and one girl’s break from the life of a peasant in a bid for the golden crown. What Leads A Man To Murder One woman, dead by midnight, snuffed out in a gush of blood and water, like the day she came in. Naked in body and soul. One man, wondering what makes a killer. What twisted workings of fate and character lead one person to steal the life of another? Neil Anderson starts his day with two things on his lips— a cup of strong coffee and this question: What leads a man to murder? Before day’s end, he’ll learn more about it than he ever wanted to know.

Author : Valeria Z. Nollan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781666917604

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Sergei Rachmaninoff by Valeria Z. Nollan Pdf

This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his religion, Nollan interweaves Rachmaninoff’s personal struggles and triumphs into his concert career.

Author : Oskar von Riesemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317430643

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Rachmaninoff's Recollections by Oskar von Riesemann Pdf

This book, first published in 1934, contains the recollections of the varied and coloured life of a great pianist and composer, who is one of the most striking figures of the musical world. Rachmaninoff dictated his memoires to the author of this book, and much of the story is therefore told in the first person. The final chapter is Riesemann’s own contribution. It is an estimate of Rachmaninoff’s qualities as composer; it shows knowledge of all his more important works; and it shows discrimination. The whole book is an authoritative and interesting study of a popular artist.

Author : Barrie Martyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Philip Ross Bullock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226823744

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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 : Sergei Bertensson,Jay Leyda
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253214211

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Sergei Rachmaninoff by Sergei Bertensson,Jay Leyda 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 on several areas of Rachmaninoff's life, especially concerning the genesis of his compositions and how he was affected by their critical reception.These pages are fabulously peopled. Here we find the Tchaikovsky brothers, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, Glazunov, and Stravinsky, as well as Chekhov, Stanislavsky, Chaliapin, Fokine, Hofmann, and Horowitz.This biography reflects direct consultation with a number of people who knew Rachmaninoff, worked with him, and corresponded with him. Even with the availabilty of such sources and full access to the Rachmaninoff Archive at the Library of Congress, Bertensson, Leyda, and Satina (Rachmaninoff's cousin and sister-in-law) were tireless in their pursuit of privately held documents, particularly correspondence. The wonderfully engaging product of their labours masterfully incorporates primary materials into the narrative. Almost half a century after it first appeared, this volume remains essential reading.

Author : David Butler Cannata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Orchestral music
ISBN : UVA:X006025035

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Rachmaninoff's Changing View of Symphonic Structure by David Butler Cannata Pdf

Author : Fiona Maddocks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Robert E. Cunningham Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Rebecca Mitchell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300216493

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Nietzsche's Orphans by Rebecca Mitchell Pdf

A prevailing belief among Russia’s cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia’s “Silver Age,” author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how “Nietzsche’s orphans” strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.

Author : Sergei Rachmaninoff,Oskar von Riesemann
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCSC:32106001371860

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Rachmaninoff's Recollections by Sergei Rachmaninoff,Oskar von Riesemann Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976-10
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011420325

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Schwann-1, Records, Tapes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chester L. Alwes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199377015

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A History of Western Choral Music by Chester L. Alwes Pdf

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up to the 21st century. Volume II begins at the transition from the Classical era to the Romantic, with an examination of the major genres common to both periods. Exploring the oratorio, part song, and dramatic music, it also offers a thorough discussion of the choral symphony from Beethoven to Mahler, through to the present day. It then delves into the choral music of the twentieth century through discussions of the major compositional approaches and philosophies that proliferated over the course of the century, from impressionism to serialism, neo-classicism to modernism, minimalism, and the avant-garde. It also considers the emerging tendency towards nationalistic composition amongst composers such as Bartók and Stravinsky, and discusses in great detail the contemporary music of the United States, and Great Britain. Framing discussion within the political, religious, cultural, philosophical, aesthetic, and technological contexts of each era, A History of Western Choral Music offers readers specialized insight into major composers and works while providing a cohesive understanding of choral music's place in Western history.

Author : Franz von Suppé
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486413976

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Poet and peasant and other great overtures by Franz von Suppé Pdf

This compilation features five works by a prolific 19th-century composer of theatrical music whose oeuvre ranged from incidental music to full operas. Reproduced from authoritative sources, the contents include Light Cavalry, Noon and Night in Vienna, Beautiful Galatea, Vienna Jubilee Overture, and the title piece.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981-04
Category : Audiotapes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011420507

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Schwann-1, Record & Tape Guide by Anonim Pdf