Rainer herschel rachmaninoff biography
Rainer herschel rachmaninoff biography
Rachmaninoff piano concerto no 2.
In today’s video, we’ll be talking about the history of Rachmaninoff. I had to learn how to pronounce his name for this video!
We’ll talk about his life, music and personality.
Let’s jump right in!
History of Rachmaninoff: Basics
Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in in Russia, in the late Romantic period of Classical music.
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He was a virtuoso pianist, doing plenty of conducting and touring in his lifetime (which lasted 70 years).
He drew influence from other great Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, and his piano and orchestral compositions are considered very expressive and melodic.
Early life
Rachmaninoff was born into a wealthy and musical family with five siblings.
He started taking piano lessons at the age of four, and like pretty much all other composers, showed a huge amount of talent at a very young age.
According to his mom, he could play musical passages from memory without wrong notes.
Since he showed talent, a music teacher was sent to their estate.
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