The Brahms Variations on a Theme of Paganini and the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Description:
Born April 2, 1873, on the estate of Oneg in the province of Novgorod, Russia, Sergei Vassilyvitch Rachmaninoff was the fifth of the six children of Vassili and Lyoubov Boutakova Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff's aristocratic descent was traced to the Hospodars Dragosh, rulers of the realm of Molday from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. One of the daughters from this family had married a son of the Grand Duke Ivan III of Moscow. The son's nephew was named Rachmanin, and from this source the …
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Date:
June 1961
Creator:
Teel, Carl Brown
Partner:
UNT Libraries