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Chapters: Chattanooga, Tennessee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: , tr. Sergey Vasil'evich Rakhmaninov) (1 April 1873 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, very nearly the last great representative of Russian late Romanticism in classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom which included a pronounced lyricism, expressive breadth, structural ingenuity and a tonal palette of rich, distinctive orchestral colors. The piano features prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, either as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble. He made it a point to use his own skills as a performer to explore fully the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Even in his earliest works, he revealed a sure grasp of idiomatic piano writing and a striking gift for melody. Rachmaninoff at age 10 Rachmaninoff was born in 1873 in Semyonovo, near Veliky Novgorod, in north-western Russia. He was born into a noble family of Tatar descent, who had been in the service of the Russian tsars since the 16th century. His parents were both amateur pianists. When he was four, his mother gave him casual piano lessons, but it was his paternal grandfather, Arkady Alexandrovich Rachmaninoff, who brought Anna Ornatskaya, a teacher from Saint Petersburg, to teach Sergei in 1882. Ornatskaya remained for "two or three years", until the family home had to be sold to settle debts and the Rachmaninoffs moved to Moscow. Sergei studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory before moving alone to Moscow to study piano under Nikolai Zverev and Alexander Silot...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=99340 ... Read more

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Chapters: Russian Conductors, Russian Opera Singers, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexandrov Ensemble Soloists, Vladimir Rosing, Alexander Glazunov, Valery Gergiev, Georgi Vinogradov, Serge Koussevitzky, Feodor Chaliapin, Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova, Anna Netrebko, Maria Kuznetsova, Anatoly Lyadov, Sergey Lazarev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Nikolay and Medea Figner, Elias Breeskin, Vladimir Jurowski, Vasily Petrenko, Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, Igor Markevitch, Arnold Azrikan, List of Russian Opera Singers, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Konstantin Saradzhev, Leonid Sobinov, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Olga Averino, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Ivan Yershov, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Václav Suk, Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Alexei Gorokhov, Alexander Siloti, Mark Reizen, Eduard Nápravník, Andrey Boreyko, Leo Borchard, Galina Vishnevskaya, Zara Dolukhanova, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Hibla Gerzmava, Mikhail Svetlov, Sergei Vasilenko, Pavel Chesnokov, Sergei Lemeshev, Yakov Kreizberg, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Nikolai Malko, Matthew Krel, Levon Ambartsumian, Sergej Larin, Yuri Temirkanov, Vronsky ... Read more

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Chapters: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexandrov Ensemble, Alexander Glazunov, Valery Gergiev, Serge Koussevitzky, Anatoly Lyadov, Elias Breeskin, Vladimir Jurowski, Vasily Petrenko, Igor Markevitch, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Konstantin Saradzhev, Constantin Bakaleinikoff, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Daniele Amfitheatrof, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Václav Suk, Alexei Gorokhov, Alexander Siloti, Eduard Nápravník, Andrey Boreyko, Leo Borchard, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Sergei Vasilenko, Pavel Chesnokov, Yakov Kreizberg, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Nikolai Malko, Matthew Krel, Levon Ambartsumian, Yuri Temirkanov, Nikolai Rakov, Tugan Sokhiev, Ilya Musin, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Vassily Sinaisky, Rudolf Barshai, Kirill Kondrashin, Efrem Kurtz, Dmitry Liss, Nicolai Golovanov, Semyon Mayevich Bychkov, Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Nikolay Afanas'yev, Oleg Lundstrem, Edvard Tchivzhel, Yuri Ahronovitch, Vasily Safonov, Aleksandr Gauk, Samuil Samosud, Issay Dobrowen, Maxim Shostakovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Veronika Dudarova, Aleksandr Sheremetev, Mikhail Tushmalov, Boris Khaykin, Mark Ermler, Mikhail Jurowski, Vladimir Verbitsky, Nikolai Sokoloff, Emil Cooper, Mikhail Sokolovsky, Vyacheslav Kruglik, Vasily Agapkin, Dmitri Kitayenko, Ippolit Al'tani, Ivan Kerzelli, Roman Moiseyev, Alexander Lazarev, Oleksander Horilyj, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Mikhail Kerzelli, Eduard Andreevitch Krushevsky, Yuri Simonov, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Gaetano Molla, Leonid Korchmar, Mikhail Nekrich, Pyotr Meshchaninov, Yevgeny Kolobov, Vassili Nebolsin, Sergei Skripka, Mark Gorenstein, Iurii Botnari, Andrei Chistyakov, Valery Polyansky, Boris Abalyan, Ariy Pazovsky, Vladimir Delman, Edouard Grikurov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 324. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: , tr. Sergey Va...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=99340 ... Read more

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NOTE: two scores (loose) in cover - scores start on page 3 not page 1 BUT THEY ARE FULL SCORES ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 [O.S. 20 March] - 28 March 1943), Russian composer and pianist, lived through tumultuous times. Born into an aristocratic, musical family in Semyonovo, near Veliky Novgorod, he was surrounded by music as a child and lived a comfortable life in Saint Petersburg. Moving into the house of his first official piano teacher, Nikolai Zverev, he transformed from an indulgent youth to an accomplished pianist. After completing his formal studies at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Pyotr Tchaikovsky, he began to compose as a "Free Artist", although almost immediately he was faced with tribulation. The Rachmaninoff family was a part of an "old aristocracy", where all of the attitude but none of the money remained. The family, of Tatar descent, had been in the service of the Russian tsars since the 16th century, and had strong musical and military leanings. The composer's father, Vasily Arkadyevich (1841-1916), an amateur pianist and army officer, married Lyubov Petrovna Butakova (1853-1929), gained five estates as a dowry, and had three boys and three girls. ... Read more

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Chapters: Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Anton Rubinstein, Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Medtner, Yuri Khanon, Andrei Gavrilov, Emil Gilels, Grigory Sokolov, Youri Egorov, Dmitri Novgorodsky, Boris Berezovsky, Shura Cherkassky, Mark Hambourg, Lazar Berman, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Evgeny Kissin, Nikolai Rubinstein, Valentina Igoshina, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Maria Yudina, Anatoly Dokumentov, Alexander Siloti, Oleg Marshev, Dmitri Klebanov, Igor Lazko, Alexander Sverjensky, Yefim Bronfman, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Zverev, Oleg Maisenberg, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Mark Zeltser, Rosina Lhévinne, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Victor Merzhanov, Ella Adayevskaya, Vladimir Rebikov, Maria Grinberg, Eduard Kunz, Vronsky ... Read more

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Score and Sound Masterworks are convenient, compact and inexpensive score/CD packs perfect for classical music enthusiasts and students. Follow along with the score as you listen to some of the world's great music. Discover which instruments are playing and in what combination, and admire the orchestration of a master composer.Publications in this series include an interesting article about the composition and history of the featured piece, a helpful reference addressing transposing instruments, and a glossary of musical terms used in the score.Serge Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is the quintessential romantic work of its type, serving up a host of memorable tunes balanced with plenty of spectacular pianism, making it one of the most popular piano concertos in the modern repertory. Unsmiling, stoic and barely moving at the keyboard, Rachmaninoff became known for his puritanically straightforward approach as a pianist, and for his beauty and warmth of tone. He wrote for his own legendarily enormous hands, which could span an interval of a thirteenth. His superior technical prowess made easy work of treacherous passagework, and consequently his own concertos present considerable challenges to pianists. ... Read more

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All of Rachmaninoff's Preludes (Prelude in C# minor, Op. 3, No. 2, Ten Preludes, Op. 23, 13 Preludes, Op. 32) are included in this Belwin-Mills edition, and all of the twenty-four major and minor keys are represented in these works. The ""Preludes"" are among the finest examples of 20th century romanticism for the piano. ... Read more

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It works for what I needed it.
So far, this seems to be a fairly good edition of Rachmaninoff's Preludes.The print is clear, making the notes easier to read than in another version of a prelude that I had been using.However, there are no finger-number suggestions; fingering suggestions would have been helpful. ... Read more

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A theory book that is artistic in design. Colors are assigned to different intervals; the student colors the intervals and creates an interesting geometric design. Intervals are presented in a logical progression and are thoroughly reinforced. Musicians of all ages will enjoy this fun way to learn intervals. ... Read more

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Duet by Sergei Rachmaninoff for two pianos and four hands. ... Read more

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Advanced Piano Solo. Revised edition with fingering, pedaling, phrasing, and instructive annotations on poetic idea, form and structure, and method of study by Leopold Godowsky. Biographical sketch and glossary by Lewis G. Thomas. ... Read more

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This is the definitive printed edition of the Second Symphony, premiered in 1908. The Second Symphony's full-blooded passion, both lyrical in expression and epic in scale, has made it one of Rachmaninoff's most popular works. The long, warmly-harmonized melodies are opulent but not cloying; the symphony's displays of passion are offset by dynamic rhythms which give them tension and urgency. ... Read more