About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: 1895 compositions, 1895 musicals, 1895 operas, 1895 songs, Musical groups established in 1895, America the Beautiful, Symphony No. 1, Cello Concerto, Christmas Eve, Harold or the Norman Conquest, An Artist's Model, Henry Clifford, The Streets of Cairo, or the Poor Little Country Maid, Guglielmo Ratcliff, Der Evangelimann, Dubrovsky, The Wizard of the Nile, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, El Capitan, Oresteia, Organ Sonata, Nozze istriane, Aborn Opera Company, Gentleman Joe, String Quartet No. 13, American Suite, The Band Played On, The Swan of Tuonela, String Quartet No. 14, Mors lilla Olle, Gartenlaube Waltz, After, Symphony No. 5, Waldmeister, King Cotton, The Widow Jones, Utah, We Love Thee, A Song of Flight, Silvano, Menuet antique, La Dolores, Trau, schau, wem!. Excerpt: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) wrote his Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13 at Ivanovka, an estate near Tambov, Russia, between January and October 1895. Despite its poor initial reception the symphony is currently seen as a dynamic representation of the Russian symphonic tradition, with British composer Robert Simpson calling it "a powerful work in its own right, stemming from Borodin and Tchaikovsky, but convinced, individual, finely constructed, and achieving a genuinely tragic and heroic expression that stands far above the pathos of his later music." The premiere, which took place in St. Petersburg on March 28, 1897, was an absolute failure for reasons which included under-rehearsal and the poor performance of the conductor Alexander Glazunov. Rachmaninoff subsequently suffered a psychological collapse, but did not destroy or disavow the score, which was left in Russia when he went into exile in 1917 and subsequently lost. In 1944, after the composer's death, the separate instrumental parts of the symphony were discovered, and from these...
