Goodbye Russia - Rachmaninoff in Exile

Informationen zum Autor 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) Klappentext '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. Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung '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.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Maddocks, Maddocks Fiona
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9780571371136
• ISBN: 978-0-571-37113-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; USA, Russia, Biography, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, United States of America, USA, Romanticism, c 1930 to c 1939, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, c 1940 to c 1949, Composers and songwriters, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: arts and entertainment, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music