Rachmaninoff and His World

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary musical life than is often thought, and how his de...