Works for Violoncello and Piano
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Sergei Rachmaninow
Works for Violoncello and Piano

Sergei Rachmaninow
Works for Violoncello and Piano

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Description:

  • Language: German English
  • Pages: 116
  • Release: 13.05.2025
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Romantic)
  • Accompaniment: Piano
  • ISMN: 9790006599035
Sergei Rachmaninoff's chamber music for cello and piano comprises three works, all of which originate from his early creative period and whose creation is closely linked to people around him at the time.

The seventeen-year-old Rachmaninoff wrote the "Lied", which was published posthumously for the first time, during a stay with the family of his future wife Natalia and dedicated it to her sister Vera. "Prélude et Danse orientale" op. 2 is dedicated to his good friend, the cellist Anatoli Brandoukoff, with whom he played the "Prélude" in the first public concert consisting entirely of his own works. Also dedicated to Brandoukoff is the Sonata op. 19, one of the first works written after the several years of depression from which Rachmaninoff suffered following the failure of his first symphony. In Opus 2 and the Sonata in particular, it is clear that Rachmaninoff saw the cello and piano as equal partners in dialogue in these works.

For this edition, the editor Daniela Macchione relies on the first editions published with Rachmaninoff's collaboration as well as the relevant autographs available in the National Museum of Music in Moscow and the Library of Congress in Washington DC.