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Motrax

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Rachmaninoff Biography

on: August 01, 2004, 07:21:32 AM

Can anybody recommend a good biography of Rachmaninoff, or perhaps memoirs or something similar? I've a gift certificate to amazon.com and I'm just itching to spend it.

Many thanks in advance.

-Motrax

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DarkWind

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Re: Rachmaninoff Biography

Reply #1 on: August 01, 2004, 08:41:19 PM

How much is the gift certificate? You could buy "Piano Mastery" which is a very insightful book.

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Motrax

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Re: Rachmaninoff Biography

Reply #2 on: August 01, 2004, 10:10:36 PM

50 dollars. I could certainly spend more if it was worth it, though. What is "piano mastery"? And who's it by?

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DarkWind

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Re: Rachmaninoff Biography

Reply #3 on: August 02, 2004, 12:38:26 AM

It's interviews on piano playing with many famous pianists. Of those, there are: Paderewski, Bulow, Busoni, Godowsky, Grainger, Hofmann, MacDowell, Ornstein, Brailowsky, Cortot, Dohnanyi, Gieseking, de Pachmann, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff, at least those are the more famous ones. There are others in there too.

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Valour

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Re: Rachmaninoff Biography

Reply #4 on: August 03, 2004, 06:58:12 AM

Hi -

There are two biographies of Rachmaninoff
listed on this page:

https://Lugansky.homestead.com/books.html

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