Rachmaninoff and His World

Book Overview

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022682375X
• ISBN13: 9780226823751
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"