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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | |
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Rachmaninoff in 1921 | |
| Born | 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 Semyonovo, Staraya Russa, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 March 1943(1943-03-28) (aged 69) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Works | List of compositions |
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff[a][b] (1 April [O.S.
20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuosopianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, de