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sergei rachmaninoff
Title: sergei rachmaninoff
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
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sergei rachmaninoff
SERGEI VASILYEVICH RACHMANINOFF
1873 – 1943
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was born on April 1, 1873, at the family estate in Oneg, deep in the Nogorod countryside. His parents were Lubov Boutakov and Vasily Rachmaninoff. His father, Vasily, was an ex-officer in the Russian army. He had two elder sisters, Elena and Sophia, and an older brother named Vladimir. He had two younger siblings which joined the Rachmaninoff family, a girl named Varvara and a boy called Arkady. Varvara died when …showed first 75 words of 1088 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1088 total…is the “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”.
While he might not have been the most influential composer of his time, his skills at conveying the emotions behind the pieces he played far exceeded that of most any other man. His works still continue to be heard to this day, and are just as soul-stirring today as they were the day he scrawled the first note onto the now yellowed parchment.
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