Report Biography of Rachmaninov

Description Sergey Vasilievich Rakhmaninov was born on April 1 in the Novgorod province in a noble family. When he turned four, he already played with his grandfather Arkady Rachmaninov, a famous composer, four hands on the piano. Up to a year - the time when Rachmaninov entered the younger branch of the St. Petersburg Conservatory - he honed the skill of playing the instrument with his mother.

Three years later, Rakhmaninov’s unimportant training was transferred to the Moscow Conservatory, where he was brought up under the supervision of Professor Nikolai Zverev. It was in the house of his first mentor Rakhmaninov that joined the group of such pianists as Ziloti, Rubinstein, Taneyev, Tchaikovsky. Peter Ilyich immediately noticed the gifted young man and predicted him a "great future." Rakhmaninov graduated from the conservatory with honors of the year, and the Aleo Opera, which was put in the Bolshoi Theater, became its graduation work.

The next five years, Rakhmaninov was popular: “The Russian Composer Most” performed, conducted, taught at the Mariinsky Women's School and the Elizabethan Institute. In the year, the prime minister of the innovative first symphony failed - Rachmaninov did not communicate with anyone, did not create anything. In M, the composer married Natalia Satina, who was his cousin.

The couple did not wait for a permission to marry the blood from the sovereign-emperor. Young have carried their love to the very end, they had two daughters - Irina and Tatyana. Even before the events of the February Revolution, Rakhmaninov, along with the family, went on a touring trip to Switzerland. Since then, he has never seen his homeland again. Abroad, Rachmaninov spent most of his time in New York and only in the year settled in the Swiss estate, reminiscent of the village in which he grew up.

During the period of emigration, he performed a lot in the American states and European countries, but for a long time did not create new masterpieces. The last work was “Symphonic dances” written in the year. Rakhmaninov was very difficult to worry about the inability to return to his country, in one of his interviews he said: “I am a Russian composer, and my homeland laid an imprint on my character and my views.

My music is the fruit of my character, and therefore it is Russian music. ” In the year, Sergey Rakhmaninov held a charity concert, and sent the proceeds to the necessary Red Army. He was buried in the Russian cemetery in Kensico, near New York. Sergey Vasilievich Rakhmaninov was born on April 1 in the Novgorod province in a noble family. Rachmaninov graduated from the conservatory with honors of a year, and his release