Sergei Rachmaninoff
Published on 14. March 2022
1 pages
978-1-78914-575-5 (ISBN)
Description
Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not always been so admired by critics. Detractors have long perceived Rachmaninoff as part of an outdated Romantic tradition from a bygone Russian world, aloof from the modernist experimentation of more innovative contemporaries such as Igor Stravinsky.
In this new assessment Rebecca Mitchell re-situates Rachmaninoff in the context of his time, bringing together the composer and his music within the remarkably dynamic era in which he lived and worked. Both in Russia and later in America, Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world.
This concise yet comprehensive biography will interest general readers as well as those more familiar with this giant of Russian classical music.
In this new assessment Rebecca Mitchell re-situates Rachmaninoff in the context of his time, bringing together the composer and his music within the remarkably dynamic era in which he lived and worked. Both in Russia and later in America, Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world.
This concise yet comprehensive biography will interest general readers as well as those more familiar with this giant of Russian classical music.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
4,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-575-5 (9781789145755)
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Rebecca Mitchell is Associate Professor of History at Middlebury College, Vermont, and author of Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics and the Twilight of the Russian Empire (2015).
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editorial Note
- Prelude: In Search of Rachmaninoff
- 1. The Making of a Moscow Musician
- 2. Ivanovka
- 3. 'My Muse Has Not Died'
- 4. In Russia's Silver Age
- 5. Dresden
- 6. The Twilight of Old Russia
- 7. 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air'
- 8. The Virtuoso in Emigration
- 9. Villa Senar
- 10. Exile in America
- Postlude: Rachmaninoff the Modernist
- References
- Further Reading
- Select Discography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
