"Chairman of the Union of Russian Composers Vladislav Kazenin, President of the Rachmaninov Society Professor Viktor Merzhanov, Professor of the Moscow Conservatory Alexei Kandinsky and Yuri Rakhmaninov. The bronze sculpture of Rachmaninov is mounted on a cubic granite pedestal. The composer is depicted dressed in a concert suit and sitting, leaning on the back of a chair. There is a slight tension in his figure. A soft smile on his face. A thoughtful look is turned to the distance, towards the house in which he lived for many years. Monument to Sergei Rachmaninov The Monument to Sergei Rachmaninov () was"
"its own origin from the Moldovan rulers Dragoshi, who ruled Moldavia and Wallachia from 1350 to 1552 descending from Vasile, nicknamed Rachmaninov (""Rachmanin"" in Old Russian, meaning lazy), a son of the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great. Rachmaninoff's family had strong musical and military leanings. His paternal grandfather, Arkady Alexandrovich, was a musician who had taken lessons from Irish composer John Field. His father, Vasily Arkadyevich Rachmaninoff (1841–1916), was an army officer and amateur pianist who married Lyubov Petrovna Butakova (1853–1929), the daughter of a wealthy army general who gave her five estates as part of her dowry. The couple"
"many pieces, most notably in the choral symphony ""The Bells"", the Second Piano Concerto, the E flat major ""Étude-Tableaux"" (Op. 33, ), and the B-minor Prelude (Op. 32, ). ""It is not enough to say that the church bells of Novgorod, St Petersburg and Moscow influenced Rachmaninov and feature prominently in his music. This much is self-evident. What is extraordinary is the variety of bell sounds and breadth of structural and other functions they fulfil."" He was also fond of Russian Orthodox chants. He uses them most perceptibly in his ""Vespers"", but many of his melodies found their origins in"
"Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. For"
"Rachmaninoff’s struggle with depression and writer’s block. Terrence Malick's 2013 film ""To the Wonder"" features ""The Isle of The Dead"". Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression"
"Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Rachmaninoff) Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (), is a musical work by Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of his two major unaccompanied choral works (the other being his All-Night Vigil). The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the primary worship service of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Rachmaninoff composed the work in July, 1910 at his summer estate Ivanovka, following his American tour of 1909. Writing to his friend Nikita Morozov, Rachmaninoff said of the work, ""I have been thinking about the ""Liturgy"" for a long time and for a long time I strove to"
"secular choirs like the Moscow Academy Choir and the Bolshoi Theatre Choir. In the Soviet era religion was often under oppression. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, whose last choirmaster had been Chesnokov, was destroyed, which disturbed him so deeply that he stopped writing music altogether. He died on 14 March 1944. Pavel Chesnokov Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Пáвел Григóрьевич Чеснокóв) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorod uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow), also transliterated ""Tschesnokoff"", ""Tchesnokov"", ""Tchesnokoff"", and ""Chesnokoff"", was an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred choral works, over"
"were his attacks on Alexander Scriabin's music as ""decadent"" from 1911-1914. His song ""The Blacksmith"" was recorded by Maxim Mikhailov and his song ""The Clock"" was recorded by Vladimir Rosing. Yuri Sakhnovsky Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky () (1866–1930) was a Russian composer, conductor and music critic. Sakhnovsky came from a well-off family and was known as a ""bon vivant (he weighed 260.lbs) handsome, brilliant and wealthy"". Sakhnovsky studied chant with Stepan Vasilevich Smolensky, to whom Sergei Rachmaninoff dedicated his ""Vespers"", though Sakhnovsky later turned to a more ""lush"" style of choral writing. While a student Sakhnovsky took in his eight-year younger"
"had been a convert for several years. Tavener converted to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1977. Orthodox theology and liturgical traditions became a major influence on his work. He was particularly drawn to its mysticism, studying and setting to music the writings of Church Fathers and completing a setting of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the principal eucharistic liturgy of the Orthodox Church: this was Tavener's first directly Orthodox-inspired music. Tavener's subsequent explorations of Russian and Greek culture resulted in ""Akhmatova Requiem"": this failed to enjoy success either at its Edinburgh Festival premiere in 1981, or at its"
"song ""Mother of God, Chase Putin Away"". All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff) The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, ""Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye""; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 23 March 1915 in Moscow. The piece consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox ""All-night vigil"" ceremony. It has been praised as Rachmaninoff's finest achievement and ""the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church"". It was one of Rachmaninoff's two favorite compositions along with ""The Bells"", and the composer requested that its fifth movement (Nunc Dimittis) be sung at"
"Rothschild's Violin (opera) Rothschild's Violin () is a one-act opera by Russian composer Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941) set to the Russian libretto by the composer after the short story ""Rothschild's Fiddle"" by Anton Chekhov. The opera centres on the bitter central character, Yakov Ivanov, a coffin-maker and amateur fiddler, his gradual understanding of life and his bequest of his violin to Rothschild, who also plays in the Jewish band with Ivanov and whom he has treated with contempt. Between 1939 and 1941, the young Fleishman was one of Dmitri Shostakovich's most promising students at the Leningrad Conservatory, where he composed his"
"Rubinstein, which was musically conservative. The later Romantic tradition of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, whose music has come to be known and loved for its distinctly Russian character as well as its rich harmonies and stirring melodies, was brought into the 20th century by Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of the last great champions of the Romantic style of European classical music. World-renowned composers of the 20th century included Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Georgy Sviridov. During most of the Soviet Era, music was highly scrutinized and kept"
"Hieromonk Roman Hieromonk Roman (, secular name Alexander Ivanovich Matyushin, ; born November 16, 1954, village Ryabchovsk, Trubchevsky District, Bryansk Oblast) is a Russian poet, singer-songwriter and hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church. Alexander was born into a family of rural teachers. He graduated from the Philology Department at the University of Elista, then worked as a school teacher. In 1983 he was tonsured monk in the Pskov-Caves Monastery. In 1985, he was ordained. He served in the parishes of the Bryansk Oblast and in Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Alexander began writing poetry in his youth. He published 19 books of"
"David Tukhmanov David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (, was born on July 20, 1940, in Moscow, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2000), State Prize of Russian Federation (2003). Tukhmanov is the son of the engineer, the Armenian Fyodor Davidovich Tukhmanov and the teacher of music Vera Anatolyevna Karasyova. He had engaged in music under the direction of mother and wrote first piece of music (""Lezginka""), when he was four years old. Then he finished Gnesins musical school (1958) and composer's branch of Gnesins Musical College (1963). His degree's work was the oratorio for soloists, chorus"
"Conservatoire Rachmaninoff The Conservatoire russe de Paris Serge Rachmaninoff (English translation: Sergei Rachmaninoff Russian Conservatory of Paris) is a professional music school in Paris, which conducts its courses in both French and Russian. The Conservatoire offers individual instruction in voice and in the standard Western classical musical instruments, as well as in the balalaika and the clarinet in the klezmer and Roma traditions . For studies in music theory, composition, analysis, music history, or theatre (Stanislavski System), pupils attend classes together in groups. The musical culture has come to Russia from Europe, but little by little started to develop his"
"style is Sergey Rakhmaninov (1873–1943), who studied at the Moscow Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky himself taught). The late 19th and early 20th century saw the third wave of Russian classics: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975). They were experimental in style and musical language. Stravinsky was particularly influential on his contemporaries and subsequent generations of composers, both in Russia and across Europe and the United States. Stravinsky permanently emigrated after the Russian revolution. Although Prokofiev also left Russia in 1918, he eventually returned and contributed to Soviet music. In the late 19th to early"
"Jewish. Soon after his resignation, an exhausted Rachmaninoff sought time for composition and took his family on holiday to Switzerland. They left after one month for Rome for a visit that became a particularly tranquil and influential period for the composer, who lived alone in a small apartment on Piazza di Spagna while his family stayed at a boardinghouse. While there he received an anonymous letter that contained a Russian translation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem ""The Bells"" by Konstantin Balmont, which affected him greatly, and he began work on his choral symphony of the same title, Op. 35, based"
"relocation to Beverly Hills, California. One month before his death from advanced melanoma, Rachmaninoff was granted American citizenship. In Rachmaninoff's work, early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and rich orchestral colors. Rachmaninoff often featured the piano in his compositions, and he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument through his own skills as a pianist. He was born into a family of the Russian aristocracy in Russian Empire. In their first known genealogy, compiled in the 1680s by Perfiliy Rakhmaninov, the family derives"
"Christine Rakhmanov Christine Rakhmanov (1760–1827), was a Russian stage actress and opera singer. She belonged to the first professional pioneer actresses in Russia. Her background is unknown. She was married to her colleague Sergei Rakhmanov. She was engaged at the Karl Knipper Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1779, which automatically made her a member of the Imperial Theatres when the Karl Knipper Theatre was transferred to Imperial ownership in 1783. She retired in 1815. Christine Rakhmanov played the principal heroine roles at the Karl Knipper Theatre, and progressively came to earn great success in her roles as comical old women."
"Christine Rakhmanov Christine Rakhmanov (1760–1827), was a Russian stage actress and opera singer. She belonged to the first professional pioneer actresses in Russia. Her background is unknown. She was married to her colleague Sergei Rakhmanov. She was engaged at the Karl Knipper Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1779, which automatically made her a member of the Imperial Theatres when the Karl Knipper Theatre was transferred to Imperial ownership in 1783. She retired in 1815. Christine Rakhmanov played the principal heroine roles at the Karl Knipper Theatre, and progressively came to earn great success in her roles as comical old women."
"1913), Grechaninov (1912) and Ippolitov-Ivanov (1907) were all influenced by Tchaikovsky's work. The most famous setting of the service, Rachmaninoff's ""All-Night Vigil"", is a culmination of the two preceding decades of interest in Orthodox music, as initiated by Tchaikovsky. The similarities between the works, such as the extensive use of traditional chants, demonstrates the extent of Tchaikovsky's influence; however, Rachmaninoff's setting is much more complex in its use of harmony, textual variety and polyphony. Tchaikovsky himself appears to have been disappointed with the work. In an 1881 letter to his friend and fellow composer Sergei Taneyev, he wrote ""I am"
"work is often mis-translated as simply ""Vespers"". This is both literally and conceptually incorrect as applied to the entire work: only the first six of its fifteen movements set texts from the Russian Orthodox canonical hour of Vespers. Rachmaninoff composed the ""All-Night Vigil"" in less than two weeks in January and February 1915. The ""All-Night Vigil"" is perhaps notable as one of two liturgical settings (the other being the ""Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom"") by a composer who had stopped attending church services. As required by the Russian Orthodox Church, Rachmaninoff based ten of the fifteen sections on chant. However,"
"Alexei Lvov Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov (Russian: ""Алексей Фёдорович Львов"") (June 5, 1799 in Reval–December 28, 1870 in Romainiai (now Kaunas)) was a Russian composer. He composed the imperial Russian national anthem ""Bozhe, tsarya khrani"" (also known as ""God Save the Tsar""). He wrote the opera ""Undine"" in 1846. He was entombed in the Pažaislis Monastery, Kaunas (Lithuania). Lvov was born into a family which was keenly interested in music. He was the son of Feodor Petrovich Lvov, who was Maestro of the Imperial Chapel in St Petersburg from 1826 to 1836 (having succeeded Bortnianskij). Lvov codified the traditional Russian liturgical"
"in addition to the repairs, were in the composer's own blood. Nikolai Obukhov Nikolai Borisovich Obukhov (; Nicolai, Nicolas, Nikolay; Obukhow, Obouhow, Obouhov, Obouhoff) (22 April 189213 June 1954) was a modernist and mystic Russian composer, active mainly in France. An avant-garde figure who took as his point of departure the late music of Scriabin, he fled Russia along with his family after the Bolshevik Revolution, settling in Paris. His music is notable for its religious mysticism, its unusual notation, its use of an idiosyncratic 12-tone chromatic language, and its pioneering use of electronic musical instruments in the era of"
"Yuri Sakhnovsky Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky () (1866–1930) was a Russian composer, conductor and music critic. Sakhnovsky came from a well-off family and was known as a ""bon vivant (he weighed 260.lbs) handsome, brilliant and wealthy"". Sakhnovsky studied chant with Stepan Vasilevich Smolensky, to whom Sergei Rachmaninoff dedicated his ""Vespers"", though Sakhnovsky later turned to a more ""lush"" style of choral writing. While a student Sakhnovsky took in his eight-year younger fellow student Rachmaninoff during the difficult winter when it seemed he was suffering from malaria. In later life Sakhnovsky was active more as a critic than a composer. Particularly notorious"
"Rasputin – Miracles Lie in the Eye of the Beholder Rasputin – Miracles Lie in the Eye of the Beholder is a rock opera about the mysterious and infamous Russian peasant, Grigori Rasputin. Written by Michael Rapp, musician and author of several musicals and film scores, ""Rasputin"" is a triple CD concept album featuring Ted Neeley (of Jesus Christ Superstar fame) as Rasputin, British actor John Hurt as the Narrator, and Amanda McBroom as Tsarina Alexandra. On December 18, 1999, a single night showcase of ""Rasputin"" was performed at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware featuring: ""Rasputin"" is one"
"Veniamin Fleishman Veniamin Iosifovich Fleishman, (, July 20, 1913, Bezhetsk, Tver Governorate – September 14, 1941, Krasnoye Selo, Leningrad Oblast) was a Soviet composer. While studying under Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory (1939–1941), he began a one-act opera ""Rothschild's Violin"" based on Anton Chekhov’s short story about Bronza, a Russian country coffin-maker and violinist, and his combative relationship with the Jewish musicians in his village. At the outbreak of World War II, Fleishman volunteered for the front and was killed before he could complete the work. In memory of his talented student, Shostakovich rescued the manuscript from besieged Leningrad,"
"wrote operas and instrumental compositions, it is his sacred choral works that are performed most often today. This vast body of work remains central not only to understanding 18th-century Orthodox sacred music, but also served as inspiration to his fellow Ukrainian composers in the 19th century. The tune he wrote for the Latin hymn ""Tantum Ergo"" eventually became known in Slavic lands as ""Коль славен (Kol slaven)"", in which form it is still sung as a church hymn today. The tune was also popular with freemasons. It travelled to English-speaking countries and came to be known by the names ""Russia"","
"Tatiana Sergeievna Rachmaninova (1907–1961). Rachmaninoff resumed work as a music teacher at St. Catherine's Women's College and the Elizabeth Institute. By February 1903 he had completed his largest piano composition of his career at the time, the ""Variations on a Theme of Chopin"" (Op. 22). Development on other pieces was disrupted after Natalia, Irina, and he were struck with illness during their summer break at Ivanovka. In 1904, in a career change, Rachmaninoff agreed to become the conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre for two seasons. He earned a mixed reputation during his time at the post, enforcing strict discipline and"
"All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff) The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, ""Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye""; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 23 March 1915 in Moscow. The piece consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox ""All-night vigil"" ceremony. It has been praised as Rachmaninoff's finest achievement and ""the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church"". It was one of Rachmaninoff's two favorite compositions along with ""The Bells"", and the composer requested that its fifth movement (Nunc Dimittis) be sung at his funeral. Note: The title of the"
"be considered a nationalist composer in the same sense as the group of Russian composers known as ""The Five"" or ""The Mighty Handful."" Nevertheless, he retained a love for Russian folk song and Orthodox chant his entire life. His liturgical music includes a setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and an All-Night Vigil which draw upon traditional chant. His affinity for folk song led him in 1868-1869 to publish ""Fifty Russian Folksongs"" arranged for piano duet. All but one he transcribed himself came from the collections of Villebois and Balakirev. Tchaikovsky wrote much of the ""Little Russian"" Symphony"
"includes: The pop song ""If I Had You"" by The Korgis uses the melody fragment from the 18th variation. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, (, ""Rapsodiya na temu Paganini"") is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is written for solo piano and symphony orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto, albeit in a single movement. The work was written at his Villa, the Villa Senar, in Switzerland, according to the score, from July 3 to August 18, 1934. Rachmaninoff himself, a noted interpreter of his own works, played the"
"the outbreak of war later that year, his position of Inspector of Music at Nobility High School for Girls put him in the group of government servants which prevented him from joining the army, yet the composer made regular charitable donations for the war effort. In 1915, Rachmaninoff completed his second major choral work, ""All-Night Vigil"" (Op. 37), after he attended a performance of the ""Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom"" and felt disappointed with it. After spending two weeks writing the ""All-Night Vigil"", he passed the score to Sergei Taneyev for proofreading and correcting errors in its polyphony, but it"