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People In Music History
Rakhmaninov, Sergey Vassilievich (1873-1943) Russian composer and pianist.
(The spellings Rachmaninoff, etc., are inconsistent with the now standard
system of transliteration from Russian.) Wrote his piano prelude in C-sharp
minor at age 20. Left Russia, 1918, disliking Soviet regime, and lived mainly
in Switzerland and in the United States, where he died. Nevertheless he
conspicuously aided the Russian anti-Nazi effort in World War II. He always
maintained a Russian outlook and wrote in an emotional (and sometimes
melancholy) Romantic style. Works include 4 piano concertos, Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra (See Paganini), many piano solos
(including transcriptions from other composers), and some 2-piano works; also 3
symphonies, symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead, 3 operas, choral work The
Bells (after Poe), songs.