Research Catalog

Title

Rachmaninoff : life, works, recordings / Max Harrison.

Author

Harrison, Max

Publication

London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.

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Details

Description

vi, 422 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Composers > Russia > Biography
• Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Originally published: 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [402]-406, discography (p. [390]-401], and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Before the beginning -- The family breaks up -- Zveref and Moscow -- Composition starts -- The break with Zveref -- To Ivanovka -- More compositions -- Towards graduation -- Aleko and the graduation -- First moves as 'free artist' -- More productions and Tchaikovsky's death -- The long road to Symphony No. 1 -- A symphony misunderstood -- London visit, Moscow cure -- The Crimea, Italy, Concerto No. 2 -- Composition continues and there is a marriage -- Variations, preludes, a child is born -- Two operas -- An abortive revolution, the operas produced -- Sonata, symphony, part of an opera -- The isle of the dead and Concerto No. 3 -- American and the liturgy -- 1910, more preludes, more conducting -- Études-tableaux, Marietta Shaginian, more songs -- The bells and a last sonata -- World War I, all-night vigil, last songs -- Final music in Russia, escape from Petrograd -- The expatriate artist: first concerts, first recordings -- Rachmaninoff fully established -- Another two seasons, more recordings -- Concerto No. 4, Chansons Russes -- Rachmaninoff the pianist -- Classic recordings and orchestration by another -- Senar and LaFolia -- Rapsodie and symphony -- Four more seasons, major recordings -- Symphonic dances -- Last recordings, a final tour -- Envoi.

ISBN

• 0826493122 (pbk.)
• 9780826493125 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 70230235
• SCSB-10546254

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library