1. MUSIC 1010 – 045

2. Composer, pianist, and conductor.

3. EARLY LIFE  Born in April 1873.  Novgorod Governorate, Old Russian Empire administrative division.  Romanticism in classical music.

4.  Lands in Russia  Appreciation for Music

5.  Piano lessons as a boy  Moved to St. Petersburg  Conservatories  Moscow

6.  Degree in Piano  Gold Medal in Composition  Symphony No. 1  Piano Concerto No. 2  Masterpieces  Symphony No. 2  Piano Concert No. 3  Got married

7.  American Tour  United States  Left Russia  European Tour  Precision and clarity  Hands of a Legend  Prodigious

8.  Composed between 1900 – 1901  Started performance in Moscow, Dec. 1900  Incomplete initial concerto  Ziloti  Taneev  Formidable performance  Complete concerto Oct. 27 th, 1901  Leipzig Gewandhaus, Nikisch  London  Sapellnikov

9.  Orchestra Introduction  Allegro Scherzando  Florid Counterpoint  Arpeggio  Pizzicato  Moderato Tempo  Forte  Largo  Maestoso  Motif  Crescendo Presto

10.  French Horns  Violins  Timbre  Cymbals  Clarinets  Forte  Staccato Pizzicato  Vivace  Coda

11.  Sonatina  Exposition, Recapitulation, and Coda  First Theme  Cadenza  A-B-A-C-A  Light Allegro Scherzando  Theme I, II  Trill notes

12.  Recapitulation  Presto  Fugue  Theme II  Rachmaninoff’s trait elements  Chord figurations  Augmentation

13. Rimsky Korsakov Tchaikovsky

14. Beverly Hills, California 28 th of March, 1943

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18.  John Culshaw, Rachmaninoff: The Man and His Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1950), p. 81.  Patrick Piggott, Rachmaninov Orchestral Music (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974), p. 48.  Slenczynska, Ruth. “The Performer’s Corner: The Opening of the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto,” Clavier, vol. XII, no. 7 (October, 1973), p. 18.  Victor I. Seroff, Rachmaninoff (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950), p. 78.

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