Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sound

01 Apr 1873

† 28 Mar 1943

Semеnovo, Novgorodskaya guberniya, Rossiyskaya imperiya (Russia)

Biography

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff 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 co...