Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sound

Birthday

1873/04/01

Day of death

1943/03/28 (70 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Semеnovo, Novgorodskaya guberniya, Rossiyskaya imperiya (Russia)

Also know as

Сергей Рахманинов, Sergey Rakhmaninov, Sergei Rakhmaninov, Sergey Rachmaninoff, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov, Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов

Biography

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892, having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and co...Read more