- Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Rachmaninoff was
born on April 1, 1873
- Fact 3 - Place of Birth: Oneg, near
Semyonovo, Russia
- Fact 4 - Full Name: Sergei
Rachmaninoff aka Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov
- Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1873-1943
- Fact 6 - Name of mother and father:
His parents names were Vasily Arkadyevich and Lyubov
Petrovna Butakova. Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of six children
- Fact 7 - Family background: Russian
noble family
- Fact 8 - Childhood and education:
Sergei Rachmaninoff came from a priviledged background and was
taught music by his mother. He studied at the Saint Petersburg
Conservatory, from the age of ten years old
- Fact 9 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
studied with three Russian composers Anton Arensky, Sergey
Taneyev and his most important musical mentor,
Tchaikovsky
- Fact 10 - Rachmaninoff worked as a
pianist and conductor for 3 years following the bad reception to
his Symphony No. 1 in D Minor
- Fact 11 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
married Natalya Satina who was his cousin
- Fact 12 - He then regained his
confidence and continued composing
- Fact 13 - Rachmaninoff moved to the
United States in 1918 following the turmoil of WW1 and the
Russian Revolution
- Fact 14 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
became a U.S. citizen only a few weeks before he died
- Fact 15 - Cause of Death: Cancer
- Fact 16 - Date of Death:
Sergei Rachmaninoff died on March 28, 1943 in Beverly Hills,
California
- Fact 17 - The types of compositions and works by Sergei
Rachmaninoff included wrote piano concertos, solo piano music,
symphonies, preludes, vocal and orchestral music
- Fact 18 - His music lives on and
the musical works of this famous composer and musician include the following:
- Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3 no. 2 (1892)
- Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor (1901)
- The Bells
- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini(1934)
- Third Symphony (1936)
- The tone poem "Isle of the Dead"
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