Rachmaninoff and His World

The University of Chicago Press

Rachmaninoff and His WorldAuthor(s): Philip Ross Bullock\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226820743, 978-0226820743\nSynopsis\nA biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.\n One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff [tel] 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 musical life than is often thought, and how his deeply felt sense of Russianness coexisted with an appreciation of American and European culture. In particular, the essays document his involvement with intellectual and artistic circles in prerevolutionary Moscow and how the form of modernity they promoted shaped his early output. Thi.