Sergei Rachmaninoff Quotes
Composer and pianist
Sergei Rachmaninoff was composer and pianist from Russia
“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new.”— Sergei Rachmaninoff
From an interview in the 1930s, reflecting on his exile from Russia and his struggle to compose in a musical world that had moved toward modernism while he remained rooted in Romanticism.
The Story of Sergei
A Ghost Who Still Plays
In December 1917, he left Russia with his wife and daughters, carrying almost nothing. He never returned. For 25 years he toured America, 40 concerts a season, never mastering English. He built a Swiss villa modeled on his lost estate. He died March 28, 1943, in Beverly Hills, four days before turning seventy. His concertos still fill halls worldwide.
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