Rachmaninoffs Sergej Vasilevic Rachmaninov Recollections Told To Oskar Von Riesemann

Author : Victor Seroff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Rachmaninoff written by Victor Seroff and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystery of Rachmaninoff is now penetrated for the first time. The personality he presented to his public was stern, granite-like, inapproachable. Yet everyone knew that behind that personality must lie deep feelings and deep humanity. For how else could Rachmaninoff have written music that millions love, or how played with such compelling beauty. It is only now, this book that we can understand what lay behind the forbidding exterior. Based on wide, patient and devoted research, this story tells us of his stormy and colorful youth, the devastating reception of his First Symphony, the breakdown and cure under the skillful ministrations of the hypnotist Dr. Dahl, the slow emergence of the mature artist, his marriage and devotion to his family, his periods of self doubt, and his long love affair with Russia and its ironical posthumous ending. For Rachmaninoff spent the last twenty-five years of his life in self-imposed but unhappy exile, he contributed generously to the home-front efforts of Russia during World War II; he was excoriated by the Soviet press and, after he died, was officially recognized as one of the great masters of composition whose examples ought to be followed and imitated by the Shostakoviches and Khatchaturians of today.