Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff Russian and Arthur Rubinstein Polish Pianist

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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff Russian and Arthur Rubinstein Polish Pianist:
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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff Russian and Arthur Rubinstein Polish Pianists.Two autographs on one paper:Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Russian Composer, Pianist and Conductor& Arthur Rubinstein Polish American Classical Pianist.
Two of the finest pianists of all time on one paper - Excellent for framing for viewing on either side.
This single page measures 6 3/4\" x 9 inches, and is single page from a notebook used for signatures and is in very good condition. Paper is medium/heavyweight vellum, expectedly yellowed from age, and has some foxing front and back. Both signatures are clear and very readable, one side has Sergei Rachmaninoff and the other side has Arthur Rubenstein, \"Sheffield - 16. 10. 36\" (where the article was signed and the date), both signatures are in fountain pen ink, each side atlower right cornerhas their names printed lightly in pencil with some lettering that can be framed out, or removed with a high polymer eraser.
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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов; Russian pronunciation:[sʲɪrˈɡʲej rɐxˈmanʲɪnəf]; 1 April[O.S. 20 March]1873 – 28 March 1943), was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of all time and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.

Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and his use of rich orchestral colors. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff\'s compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument.

At Mamontov, Feodor Chaliapin, he also metSergei Rachmaninoff, who was serving as an assistant conductor there and with whom he remained friends for life. Rachmaninoff taught him much about musicianship, including how to analyze a music score, and insisted that Chaliapin learn not only his own roles but also all the other roles in the operas in which he was scheduled to appear. With Rachmaninoff he learned the title role ofMussorgsky\'sBoris Godunov, which became his signature character.Chaliapin returned the favor by showing Rachmaninoff how he built each of his interpretations around a culminating moment or \"point.\" Regardless of where that point was or at which dynamic within that piece, the performer had to know how to approach it with absolute calculation and precision; otherwise, the whole construction of the piece could crumble and the piece could become disjointed. Rachmaninoff put this approach to considerable use when he became a full-time concert pianist afterWorld War I.

The Rachmaninoff family, of Russian and distant Moldavian (allegedly from one of Stephen the Great\'s sons) descent, was part of the Russian aristocracy, having been in the service of the Russian tsars since the 16th century, and had strong musical and military leanings. The composer\'s father, Vasily Arkadyevich Rachmaninoff (1841–1916), an amateur pianist and army officer, married Lyubov Petrovna Butakova (1853–1929), gained five estates as a dowry, and had three boys and three girls. Sergei was born on 1 April[O.S. 20 March]1873 at the estate of Semyonovo, in Oneg, near Great Novgorod in north-western Russia.

When he was four, his mother gave him casual piano lessons, but it was his paternal grandfather, Arkady Alexandrovich, who brought Anna Ornatskaya, a teacher from Saint Petersburg, to teach Sergei in 1882. Ornatskaya remained for \"two or three years\", until Vasily had to sale off their home due to his financial incompetence—the five estates had been reduced to one; he was described as \"a wastrel, a compulsive gambler, a pathological liar, and a skirt chaser\"—and they moved to a small flat in Saint Petersburg.

Ornatskaya returned to her home, and arranged for Sergei to study at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which he entered in 1883, at age ten. That year his sister Sofia died of diphtheria, and his father left the family, with their approval, for Moscow. Sergei\'s maternal grandmother stepped in to help raise the children, especially focusing on their spiritual life. She regularly took Sergei to Russian Orthodox services, where he was first exposed to the liturgical chants and the church bells of the city, which would later permeate many of his compositions.

Sergei Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff in 1921 & at Age 10.BornSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff
Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов
1 April[O.S. 20 March]1873
Veliky Novgorod, Russian EmpireDied28 March 1943(1943-03-28) (aged69)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.Causeof deathMelanomaResting placeKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, U.S.AlmamaterMoscow ConservatoryOccupationComposer, pianist and conductor

Coat of arms of the Rakhmaninov (Rakhmaninoff) family. Rachmaninoff in the early 1900s, before he graduated Moscow Rubinstein, KBE (January 28, 1887– December 20, 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers and many regard him as the greatest Chopin interpreter of his time. He was described by The New York Times as one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. He played in public for eight decades.

In 1904, Rubinstein moved to Paris to launch his career in earnest, where he met the composers Maurice Ravel and Paul Dukas and the violinist Jacques Thibaud. He also played Camille Saint-Saëns\' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the presence of the composer. Through the family of Juliusz Wertheim (to whose understanding of Chopin\'s genius Rubinstein attributed his own inspiration in the works of that composer) he formed friendships with the violinist Paul Kochanski and composer Karol Szymanowski.

Rubinstein in 1906 and 1971.

Rubinstein made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1906, and thereafter toured the United States, Austria, Italy, and Russia. According to his own testimony and that of his son in François Reichenbach\'s film L\'Amour de la vie (1969), he was not well received in the United States. By 1908, Rubinstein, destitute and desperate, hounded by creditors, and threatened with being evicted from his Berlin hotel room, made a failed attempt to hang himself. Subsequently he said that he felt \"reborn\" and endowed with an unconditional love of life. In 1912, he made his London debut, and found a home there in the Edith Grove, Chelsea, musical salon of Paul and Muriel Draper, in company with Kochanski, Igor Stravinsky, Jacques Thibaud, Pablo Casals, Pierre Monteux and others.

During World War I, Rubinstein stayed in London, giving recitals and accompanying the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. In 1916 and 1917, he made his first tours in Spain and South America where he was wildly acclaimed. It was during those tours that he developed a lifelong enthusiasm for the music of Enrique Granados, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. He was the dedicatee of Villa-Lobos\'s Rudepoêma and Stravinsky\'s Trois mouvements de Petrouchka.

Rubinstein was disgusted by Germany\'s conduct during the war and never played there again. His last performance in Germany was in 1914.

In the autumn of 1919 Rubinstein toured the British provinces with soprano Emma Calvé and tenor Vladimir Rosing.

In 1921 Rubinstein gave two American tours, travelling to New York with Karol Szymanowski and his close friend Paul Kochanski.

Rubinstein was active in supporting charities throughout his life. He performed charity concerts to raise donations for numerous organizations that he had interests in. In 1961, he performed ten recitals in Carnegie Hall to raise roughly $100,000 for charities including Big Brothers, United Jewish Appeal, Polish Assistance, Musicians Emergency fund, the National Association for Mental Health, and the Legal Defense Fund of the National Advancement of Colored People.

Rubinstein died in his sleep at his home in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 20, 1982, at the age of 95, and his body was cremated. On the first anniversary of his death, an urn holding his ashes was buried in Jerusalem—as specified in his will—in a dedicated plot now dubbed \"Rubinstein Forest\" overlooking the Jerusalem Forest. This was arranged with Israel\'s chief rabbis so that the main forest wouldn\'t fall under religious laws governing cemeteries.

In October 2007, his family donated to the Juilliard School an extensive collection of original manuscripts, manuscript copies and published editions that had been seized by the Germans during World War II from his Paris residence. Seventy-one items were returned to his four children, marking the first time that Jewish property kept in the Berlin State Library was returned to the legal heirs.

In 1974, Jan Jacob Bistritzky established the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, held every three years in Israel, intended to promote the careers of young and outstanding pianists. The Arthur Rubinstein Award and other prizes are presented to the winners. The Rubinstein Competition also commissions works by Israeli composers.

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff Russian and Arthur Rubinstein Polish Pianists.