The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
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Fiona Maddocks is the Classical Music critic of the Observer. She was founder editor of BBC Music Magazine and chief arts feature writer for the London Evening Standard, and has written for numerous other publications. She is the author of Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age (Faber), Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks (Faber) and Music for Life (Faber)
'Delightful . Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars - from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporaries and polar opposites, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.
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Hardcover. Etat : New. Rachmaninoff left Russia during the 1917 Revolution and died in Beverly Hills in 1943 having composed only six new works and without ever returning home. The classical music critic for the Observer, Fiona Maddocks uses a wide range of sources, including newly translated texts, to investigate what Rachmaninoff's life in exile was like and why he put aside his career as composer and conductor to reinvent himself as a virtuoso pianist. N° de réf. du vendeur 546452
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