Classical Composer: | Rachmaninov, Sergey |
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Work: | Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 |
Year Composed: | 1892 |
Instrumentation: | pf |
Publishers: |
Universal Edition Boosey & Hawkes G. Henle Verlag |
Duration: | 00:08:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Instrumental |
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Rachmaninov wrote his famous Prélude in C Sharp Minor in Moscow in the autumn of 1892 and played it in public for the first time at a concert at the Electrical exposition. It was to prove an embarrassingly successful piece, a tact that at first brought him some pleasure and later some misgivings, as audiences everywhere clamoured for its inclusion in any recital programme he gave and arrangements for a diversity of instruments followed, including one for the banjo and another for trombone quartet. The Prélude itself is a dramatic and impassioned piece, redolent with supposed Russian melancholy. It is preceded in the five Morceaux de fantaisie of 1892 by an equally melancholy Elégie and followed by a gently nostalgic Mélodie. Polichinelle is as capricious as its title would suggest and the set of pieces, the composer's first to be published, ends with a Sérénade in Spanish style.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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