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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff foi um compositor, pianista e maestro russo, um dos últimos grandes expoentes do estilo Romântico na música erudita ocidental. "Sergei Rachmaninoff" foi como o próprio compositor grafou seu nome quando viveu no ocidente, durante a última metade de sua vida. Entretanto, transliterações alternativas de seu nome incluem Sergey ou Sergej, e Rachmaninov, Rachmaninow, Rakhmaninov ou Rakhmaninoff.

Rachmaninoff é tido como um dos pianistas mais influentes do Século XX. Seus trejeitos técnicos e rítmicos são lendários, e suas mãos largas eram capazes de cobrir um intervalo de uma 13ª no teclado . Especula-se se ele era ou não portador da Síndrome de Marfan, já que se pode dizer que o tamanho de suas mãos correspondia à sua estatura, algo entre 1,91 e 1,98 m. Ele também possuía a habilidade de executar composições complexas à primeira audição. Muitas gravações foram feitas pela Victor Talking Machine Company, com Rachmaninoff executando composições próprias ou de repertórios populares.

Sua reputação como compositor, por outro lado, tem gerado controvérsia desde sua morte. A edição de 1954 do Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians notoriamente desprezou sua música como "monótona em textura... consistindo principalmente de melodias artificiais e feias" e previu seu sucesso como "não duradouro". Harold C. Schonberg, em seu livro A Vida dos Grandes Compositores, considerou que a referência "figura entre as mais esnobes e estúpidas jamais encontradas em um livro que supostamente deve ser objetivo". De fato, não apenas os trabalhos de Rachmaninoff tornaram-se parte do repertório padrão, mas sua popularidade tanto entre músicos quanto entre ouvintes vem, no mínimo, crescendo desde a segunda metade do Século XX, com algumas de suas sinfonias e trabalhos orquestrais, canções e músicas de coral sendo reconhecidas como obras-primas ao lado dos trabalhos para piano, mais populares.

Suas composições incluem, dentre várias outras: quatro concertos para piano; a famosa Rapsódia sobre um tema de Paganini; três sinfonias; duas sonatas para piano; três óperas; uma sinfonia para coral ; vinte e quatro prelúdios ; dezessete études; muitas canções, sendo as mais famosas a V molchanyi nochi taynoi , Lilacs e a sem-letra Vocalise; e o último de seus trabalhos, as Danças Sinfônicas. A maioria de suas peças é carregada de melancolia, um estilo romântico tardio lembrando Tchaikovsky, embora apareçam fortes influências de Chopin e Liszt. Inspirações posteriores incluem a música de Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Medtner e Henselt. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Março 1873 – 28. Março 1943
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Frases em inglês

“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”

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“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.”

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Interviewed by Leonard Liebling in The Musical Courier, 1939; cited from Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 351.

“My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”

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Quoted in Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 381.
Said on February 27, 1943, during his last illness, after having said that he would never be able to play again.

“Especially dangerous on the musical front in the present class war.”

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An official Soviet verdict on Rachmaninoff's music, delivered in 1931; cited from Percy A. Scholes The Oxford Companion to Music, 5th edn. (London: Oxford University Press, 1944) p. 775.
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“The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.”

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Extract from an interview by James Francis Cooke, as given in the 1999 edition of Great Pianists on Piano Playing (Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999) p. 217.

“I can respect the artistic aim of a composer if he arrives at the so-called modern idiom after an intense period of preparation…Such composers know what they are doing when they break a law; they know what to react against, because they have had experience in the classical forms and style. Having mastered the rules, they know which can be violated and which should be obeyed. But, I am sorry to say, I have found too often that young composers plunge into the writing of experimental music with their school lessons only half learned. Too much radical music is sheer sham, for this very reason: its composer sets about revolutionizing the laws of music before he learned them himself.”

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Interviewed by David Ewen in The Etude, 1941; cited from Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (Boston, MA: Northeastern Universities Press, 1997) pp. 235-6

“Technically he was highly gifted, but also severely limited. His music is well constructed and effective, but monotonous in texture, which consists in essence mainly of artificial and gushing tunes accompanied by a variety of figures derived from arpeggios. The enormous popular success some few of Rakhmaninoff's works had in his lifetime is not likely to last, and musicians never regarded it with much favour.”

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Eric Blom (ed.) Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edn. (London: Macmillan, 1954) vol. 7, p. 27.
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“Although it may seem incredible, this cure helped me. At the beginning of the summer I began to compose… New musical ideas began to stir with me-far more than I needed for my concerto. By the autumn I had finished the Adagio and Finale… The Two movements I played… at a charity concert… They had a gratifying success… By the Spring I had finished the first movement of the concerto… Out of gratitude, I dedicated it to Nikolay Dahl.”

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About his second piano concerto. Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Guide for Listeners by Donald N. Ferguson.

“It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19th cent[ury], with their characteristic gift for long and broad melodies imbued with a resigned melancholy which is never long absent.”

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Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 3rd edn. (London: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 516.
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“Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one – that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.”

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Neville Cardus The Delights of Music (London: Victor Gollancz, 1966) p. 90.
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“A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.”

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Quoted in Oskar von Riesemann (trans. Dolly Rutherford) Rachmaninoff's Recollections (New York: Macmillan, 1934) p. 155.

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