Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Maddocks, Fiona
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Maddocks, Fiona

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set...
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Author: Fiona Maddocks
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Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Maddocks, Fiona

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

$67.83
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Maddocks, Fiona

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

$67.83
Author: Fiona Maddocks
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.

In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland--his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece?

Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace. He had already written the music which, today, has made him one of the most popular composers of all time: the second and third Piano Concertos and two symphonies. The story of his years in exile in America and Switzerland has only been told in passing. Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars--from Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin to his Russian contemporaries and polar opposites, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.

Yet the melancholy of leaving his homeland never lifted. Using a wide range of sources, including important newly translated texts, Fiona Maddocks's immensely readable book conjures impressions of this enigmatic figure, his friends and the world he encountered. It explores his life as an emigré artist and how he clung to an Old Russia which no longer existed. That forging of past and present meets in his Symphonic Dances (1940), his last composition, written on Long Island shortly before his death in Beverly Hills, surrounded by a close-knit circle of exiles. Goodbye Russia is a moving and prismatic look at Rachmaninoff and his iconic final work.

Author: Fiona Maddocks
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 01/02/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9781639365937


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2023
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