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| x Symphony No. 7 |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Saint Petersburg |
Dmitri Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 dedicated to the city of Leningrad, on 27 December 1941. In its time, the symphony was extremely popular in both Russia and the West as a symbol of resistance and defiance to Nazi...
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| x Piano Sonata No. 6 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Baron von Dürnitz |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 6 in D major, K 284 (205b) (1775) is a sonata in three movements:
A typical performance takes about 24 minutes.
The piece is subtitled "Dürnitz" as it was written for Baron von Dürnitz, an amateur...
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| x Cello Concerto No. 1 | Camille Saint-Saëns | Auguste Tolbeque |
Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 in 1872, when the composer was age 37. He wrote this work for the Belgian cellist, viola de gamba player and instrument maker Auguste Tolbeque. Tolbeque was part of a...
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| x Cello Concerto No. 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Mstislav Rostropovich |
The Cello Concerto No. 2, Opus 126, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in the spring of 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September...
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| x Cello Concerto No. 1 |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Mstislav Rostropovich |
The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Opus 107, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1959. He wrote it for Mstislav Rostropovich, who memorized the work in four days and gave the premiere in Leningrad under Yevgeny Mravinsky, on October 4, 1959...
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| x Cello Concerto No. 1 in C | Joseph Haydn | Joseph Franz Weigl |
The Cello Concerto No.1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb/1, by Joseph Haydn was composed around 1761–1765 for longtime friend Joseph Weigl, then the principal cellist of Prince Nicolaus's Esterházy Orchestra.
The work was presumed lost until 1961, when...
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| x Cello Concerto | Samuel Barber | Raya Garbousova |
Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto in A Minor (op. 22), completed on 22 November 1945, was the second of his three concertos (the first being his Violin Concerto, his third is the Piano Concerto). Barber was commissioned to write his concerto for Raya...
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| x Piano Sonata No. 3 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Joseph Haydn |
The Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major is a sonata written for solo piano, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1796. It is the third sonata from the Opus 2 publication, dedicated to Joseph Haydn. It was written three years prior to his widely-known...
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| x Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor |
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Frédéric Chopin | Countess Emilie de Perthuis |
Frédéric Chopin composed his Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 in 1844 and dedicated it to Countess Emilie de Perthuis. His last sonata for piano solo, it has been suggested that this was his attempt to address the criticisms of his earlier...
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| x Violin Sonata No. 5 |
The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring" sonata, and was published in 1801. Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the...
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| x Violin Sonata No. 7 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Alexander I of Russia |
The Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, the second of his opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Czar Alexander I of Russia. It has four movements:
The first movement is in sonata...
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| x Symphony No. 1 | Arnold Bax | John Ireland |
The Symphony No. 1 by Arnold Bax was completed in 1922 and dedicated to John Ireland. Its outer movements were based on a Piano Sonata in E-flat that Bax subsequently orchestrated, while the central movement was newly-composed for the symphony.
It...
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| x Symphony No. 3 |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Napoleon Bonaparte |
The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (Op. 55) by Ludwig van Beethoven (known as the Eroica which is Italian for "heroic") is a musical work sometimes cited as marking the end of the Classical Era and the beginning of musical Romanticism.
The symphony...
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| x Piano Quintet | Dmitri Shostakovich | Beethoven Quartet |
The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola and cello).
Shostakovich began work on the piece in the...
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| x 24 Preludes and Fugues | Dmitri Shostakovich | Tatiana Nikolayeva |
The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich is a set of 24 piano pieces, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. While the musical style and ideas are Shostakovich's own, it follows the form of Johann Sebastian...
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| x String Quartet No. 5 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Beethoven Quartet |
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major (Op. 92) was composed in autumn 1952. It was premiered in Leningrad in November 1953 by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. It consists of three movements, performed without a...
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| x String Quartet No. 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Vissarion Shebalin |
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 in A major (Op. 68) was composed in 1944. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to the composer Vissarion Shebalin.
Playing time is approximately 35 minutes, one minute shorter than his...
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| x Symphony No. 5 | Arnold Bax | Jean Sibelius |
The Symphony No. 5 by Arnold Bax was completed in 1932 and dedicated to Jean Sibelius. It is in many ways heavily influenced by Sibelius.
It is scored for two piccolos, three flutes, two oboes, English horn, three clarinets, bass clarinet, two...
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| x Piano Concerto No. 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Maxim Shostakovich |
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1957 for his son Maxim's 19th birthday. Maxim premiered the piece during his graduation at the Moscow Conservatory. It is an uncharacteristically cheerful piece, much...
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| x Piano Trio No. 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Ivan Sollertinsky |
The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944 and dedicated to the memory of his closest friend Ivan Sollertinsky, who had recently died. The work received its premiere in Leningrad on 14 November 1944. The...
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| x Symphony No. 8 |
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Anton Bruckner | Franz Joseph I of Austria |
Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is the last Symphony the composer completed. It exists in two major versions of 1887 and 1890. It was premiered under conductor Hans Richter in 1892 in Vienna. It is dedicated to the Emperor Franz Joseph I...
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Evgeny Mravinsky |
The Symphony No. 8 in C minor (Opus 65) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on November 4 of that year by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated.
The...
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| x Symphony No. 6 | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Michael Mullinar |
Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony in E minor, published as Symphony No. 6, was composed in 1946-7, during and immediately after World War II. Dedicated to Michael Mullinar, it was first performed by Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in...
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Antonín Dvořák | Hans Richter |
Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) composed his Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60, B. 112, in 1880. It is dedicated to Hans Richter, who was the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. With a performance time of approximately 40...
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| x Symphony No. 6 | Jean Sibelius | Wilhelm Stenhammar |
Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 6, in D minor Opus 104 was completed in 1923. Although the symphony is sometimes described as being "in D minor" the score does not contain a key attribution. Much of the symphony is in fact in the (modern) Dorian mode....
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| x Symphony No. 6 | Arnold Bax | Adrian Boult |
The Symphony No.6 by Arnold Bax was completed on February 10, 1935. The symphony was dedicated to Sir Adrian Boult, who often conducted Arnold Bax's works but criticized them for being formally loose, . Arnold Bax's main aim with this work was to...
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| x Symphony No. 6 | Robert Simpson | Ian Craft |
The Symphony No. 6 by Robert Simpson was completed in 1977 and dedicated to the renowned gynaecologist Ian Craft. It was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra who gave the premiere under Sir Charles Groves on 8th of April, 1980.
Ian...
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| x Symphony no. 10 | Hans Werner Henze | Paul Sacher |
Symphony No. 10 by Hans Werner Henze was written between 1997 and 2000.
Unlike his Ninth Symphony, the Tenth has a more traditional four-movement symphonic structure. The first movement, entitled Ein Sturm (A Storm) is suitably tempestuous; the...
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| x Symphony No. 10 | Robert Simpson | Vernon Handley |
Robert Simpson composed his Symphony No. 10 in 1988 and dedicated it to the conductor Vernon Handley who gave the premiere of the work in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, on 16 January, 1991 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. This is...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Anatoliy Brandukov |
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, a sonata for cello and piano, was composed in 1901 and published a year later. As typical of sonatas in the Romantic period, it has four movements. Rachmaninoff disliked calling it a cello...
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| x Violin Concerto |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Leopold Auer |
The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878, is one of the best known of all violin concertos. It is also considered to be among the most technically difficult works for violin.
The concerto is scored for 2...
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| x Violin Concerto | Jean Sibelius | Franz von Vecsey |
The Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 was written by Jean Sibelius in 1903.
Sibelius originally dedicated the concerto to the noted violinist Willy Burmester, who promised to play the concerto in Berlin. For financial reasons, Sibelius decided to...
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| x Violin Concerto | Ludwig van Beethoven | Franz Clement |
Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written in 1806.
The work was premiered on December 23, 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Beethoven wrote the concerto for his colleague Franz Clement, a leading violinist of...
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Johannes Brahms | Joseph Joachim |
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 is a violin concerto in three movements composed by Johannes Brahms in 1878 for and dedicated to his friend, violinist Joseph Joachim. It was Brahms' only violin concerto, and, according to Joachim, one of the four...
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| x Violin Concerto | William Walton | Jascha Heifetz |
The Violin Concerto of William Walton (1902–1983) was written in 1938–39 and reorchestrated in 1943. It has three movements:
The concerto was written for Jascha Heifetz, who commissioned it in 1936. The premiere of the original version took place on...
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| x Violin Concerto | Bernard Tan | Lynnette Seah |
Bernard Tan's Violin Concerto was premiered on 7 January 2006 by acclaimed Singaporean violinist Lynnette Seah, with conductor Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. The soloist received the score only two months before the premiere....
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| x Violin Concerto No. 2 | Béla Bartók | Zoltán Székely |
Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 (written 1937–8) was dedicated to the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Zoltán Székely, who requested the composition in 1936, and is a prime example of verbunkos style.
Bartók composed the concerto in a...
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| x Violin Concerto | Edward Elgar | Fritz Kreisler |
Sir Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral works and has been described as "the greatest English contribution to the treasury of Romantic violin concertos".
The Royal Philharmonic Society of London...
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| x Violin Concerto | Robert Schumann | Joseph Joachim |
Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23 was his only violin concerto and one of his last significant compositions, and one that remained unknown to all but a very small circle for more than 80 years after it was written.
Schumann wrote...
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| x F-A-E Sonata | Joseph Joachim |
The F-A-E Sonata, a four-movement work for violin and piano, is an interesting example of a collaborative effort by three composers. It was composed in Düsseldorf in October 1853 by Robert Schumann, the young Johannes Brahms (who had become known to...
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| x Violin Concerto No. 1 | Béla Bartók | Stefi Geyer |
Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a was written around the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, after the composer's death. It was premiered in May 30, 1958 in Basel, Switzerland. It strays from the path of the traditional concerto,...
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| x Violin Concerto No. 1 | Dmitri Shostakovich | David Oistrakh |
The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Opus 77, was originally written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947 - 1948. He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov decree, and in the period following the composer's denunciation the work could...
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| x Violin Concerto | György Ligeti | Saschko Gawriloff |
György Ligeti's Violin Concerto was written between 1989 and 1993 for the violinist Saschko Gawriloff. The concerto is in five movements:
It is often considered one of Ligeti's finest works, and well represents his late style: a synthesis of avant...
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| x Violin Concerto No. 3 | Camille Saint-Saëns | Pablo de Sarasate |
The Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61, by Camille Saint-Saëns, is a Romantic piece for violin and orchestra. Saint-Saëns finished and dedicated the concerto in 1880 to fellow composer-virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, who played the solo part at...
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, in 1945.
Working in the lush, lyrical idiom reminiscent of fin de siècle Vienna, Korngold scored the concerto for elaborate instrumental forces. In addition to the solo violin,...
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| x Violin Concerto | Alexander Glazunov | Leopold Auer |
The Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 by Alexander Glazunov is one of his most popular compositions. Written in 1904, the concerto was dedicated to violinist Leopold Auer, who gave the first performance at a Russian Musical Society concert in St....
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| x Violin Concerto No. 1 | Henryk Wieniawski | Frederick William IV of Prussia |
Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 14, by Polish violin virtuoso Henryk Wieniawski was first performed on October 27, 1853 in Leipzig. The score is dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia.
The work is in three movements:
The first...
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| x Violin Concerto No. 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich | David Oistrakh |
The Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Opus 129, was Dmitri Shostakovich's last concerto. He wrote it in the spring of 1967 as an early 60th birthday present for its dedicatee, David Oistrakh. It was premiered unofficially in Bolshevo, near...
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| x Violin Concerto No. 2 | Henryk Wieniawski | Pablo de Sarasate |
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22, by the Polish violin virtuoso, Henryk Wieniawski, may have been started in 1856, but the first performance did not take place until November 27, 1862, when he played it in St. Petersburg with Anton...
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| x Violin Concerto No. 2 | Max Bruch | Pablo de Sarasate |
Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44 was composed around 1878 , and dedicated to Pablo de Sarasate . It was premiered in London by Sarasate, conducted by Bruch, in November 1878 . The concerto has three movements:
The work takes...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Józef Hofmann |
The Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (colloquially known as "Rach 3") is famous for its technical and musical demands on the performer. It has the reputation of being one of the most difficult concertos in the standard...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Nikolai Dahl |
The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with the composer as soloist on 2...
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Robert Schumann | Ferdinand Hiller |
The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54, is a famous Romantic concerto by Robert Schumann, completed in 1845.
Schumann had begun several piano concerti before this one: In 1828, he had begun one in E-flat major; from 1829-31 he worked on one in F major...
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Hans von Bülow |
The Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888. It is considered one of the most popular of...
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| x Piano Concerto No. 2 | Johannes Brahms | Eduard Marxsen |
The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 by Johannes Brahms is a composition for solo piano with orchestral accompaniment. It is separated by a gap of 22 years from the composer's first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878...
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| x Piano Concerto No. 3 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia |
The Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1800 and was first performed on 5 April 1803, with the composer as soloist. During that same performance, the Second Symphony and the oratorio Christ on the Mount...
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, was written in 1879-1880. It was dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had insisted he be allowed to perform it at the premiere as a way of making up for his harsh criticism of...
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| x Piano Concerto No. 2 | Franz Liszt | Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff |
Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A Major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Alexander Siloti |
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1, in 1892, at age 19. He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.
This was actually Rachmaninoff's second attempt at a piano concerto...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Nikolai Medtner |
Sergei Rachmaninoff completed his Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 in 1926 and the work currently exists in three versions. Following its unsuccessful premiere he made cuts and other amendments before publishing it in 1928. With continued...
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