Rachmaninoff

Understandably, the piano figures prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output, either as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble. He made it a point, however, to use his own skills as a performer to explore fully the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Even in his earliest works, he revealed a sure grasp of idiomatic piano writing and a striking gift for melody. In some of his early orchestral pieces he showed the first signs of a talent for tone painting, which he would perfect in The Isle of the Dead, and he began to show a similar penchant for vocal writing in two early sets of songs, Opp. 4 and 8. Rachmaninoff's masterpiece, however, is his choral symphony The Bells, in which all of his talents are fused and unified.
Rachmaninoff sometimes felt threatened by the success of modernists such as Scriabin and Prokofiev and wondered whether to cease composing even before he left Russia. His musical philosophy was rooted in the Russian spiritual tradition, where the role of the artist was to create beauty and to speak the truth from the depths of his heart. In his last major interview, in 1941, he admitted his music, like Russian music, was a product of his temperament. He said, on another occasion, "The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exaltâthey meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt."


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Total 591 sheet(s) found, listing between 0 - 20.
Song | Added By | Pages | Instruments | Sheet Type | File |
vocalise |
nangari (11)
1865d ago
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3 | Accordion | Transcription |
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Prelude in C-sharp minor |
pattiq22 (192)
2054d ago
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4 | Piano | Transcription |
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Polichinelle |
pattiq22 (192)
2054d ago
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9 | Piano | Transcription |
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Prelude in C-Sharp Minor. Opus 3, nº2 For The Piano |
cchucho39 (429)
2306d ago
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8 | Piano | Original |
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vocalise |
abyssine (96)
2338d ago
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5 | Piano, Cello | Original |
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Prelud op.3 no.2 |
cchucho39 (429)
2375d ago
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8 | Piano | Original |
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Daisies |
alekraverm (1)
3172d ago
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3 | Piano | Transcription |
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Prelude Op. 3 No.2 in C Sharp Minor |
amirkia (8)
3240d ago
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4 | Piano | Other |
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Vocalise |
masefield (1)
3290d ago
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6 | Piano | Transcription |
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Symphonic Dances Op. 45 - 1st mvt. |
grimmbo93 (1)
3294d ago
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33 | Piano | Transcription |
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Piano Concerto No.3 |
sdshin6 (8)
3308d ago
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36 | Piano | Book |
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Romance 6 hands |
HikariAoi (18)
3361d ago
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14 | Piano | Original |
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Prelude |
Alexandar15 (21)
3362d ago
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4 | Piano | Original |
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18th Variations from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
laisnidei (16)
3371d ago
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3 | Piano | Original |
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Italian polka |
jadranko (57)
3419d ago
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2 | Accordion | Transcription |
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Sing not to me, beautiful maiden |
eatdirt (4)
3433d ago
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4 | Piano, Vocal | Book |
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Prelude op. 23 no 5 - Alla Marcia (1901) |
prisfish (14)
3434d ago
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6 | Piano | Original |
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These summer nights |
eatdirt (4)
3439d ago
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5 | Piano, Vocal | Book |
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vocalise |
krise25 (26)
3445d ago
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3 | Piano | Transcription |
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
ousgg (5)
3445d ago
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4 | Piano | Original |
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