Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmani… - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one – that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.

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About Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1 April (O.S. 20 March) 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who based himself in the United States after the October Revolution. His name is often transliterated as Sergey or Serge, Rakhmaninov or Rachmaninov.

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Alternative Names: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff • Rachmaninoff • Rach • Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff • Rachmaninov • Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов

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It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19th cent[ury], with their characteristic gift for long and broad melodies imbued with a resigned melancholy which is never long absent.

A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.

I repeat what I said to you back in Russia: you are, in my opinion, the greatest composer of our time.

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