Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks 163936594X 9781639365944

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• ISBN 10:163936594X
• ISBN 13:  9781639365944
• Author:Fiona Maddocks

In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances?Rachmaninoff left Petrograd in 1917 in the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was 44 years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace. He had already written the music which, today, has made him one of the most popular composers of all the second and third Piano Concertos and two symphonies. The story of his years in exile in America and Switzerland, has only been told in passing.

Table contents:

1. 1915–1918: Revolution, Departure, Arrival
2. Rewind: Life before Exile
3. 1918–1930: America, the Glory Years
4. 1930–1939: France, Switzerland, Second Exile
5. 1939–1943: Gathering In
6. Last Rites
7. Wild Strawberries: Remembering Ivanovka

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