![]() His musical philosophy was rooted in the Russian spiritual tradition, where the role of the artist was to create beauty and to speak the truth from the depths of his heart. Rachmaninoff sometimes felt threatened by the success of modernists such as Scriabin and Prokofiev and wondered whether to cease composing even before he left Russia. ![]() Rachmaninoff's masterpiece, however, is his choral symphony The Bells, in which all of his talents are fused and unified. In some of his early orchestral pieces he showed the first signs of a talent for tone painting, which he would perfect in The Isle of the Dead, and he began to show a similar penchant for vocal writing in two early sets of songs, Opp. Even in his earliest works, he revealed a sure grasp of idiomatic piano writing and a striking gift for melody. He made it a point, however, to use his own skills as a performer to explore fully the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Understandably, the piano figures prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, either as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom which included a pronounced lyricism, expressive breadth, structural ingenuity and a tonal palette of rich, distinctive orchestral colors. ![]() ![]() He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romanticism in classical music. Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 - 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. ![]()
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