Chopins influence on Rachmaninoff

[frank_48]

im doing a music report, chopin as the main focus point, i have to talk about chopin himself, the people who influenced his music (bach) and the people who were infleunced by chopin, in similar musical style, (rachmaninoff) but im having trouble finding the link between Chopin and Rach, other than the fact they both wrote preludes, can anybody offer any insight?

[outin]

Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is that Chopin had a huge influence on Mily Balakirev, who was a leading figure in Russian music. One of his "followers" was Rimsky-Korsakov, who I believe had some influence on Rachmaninoff.

[49410enrique]

hmm i don't recall reading of lots of formal talk about this, the chopin to scriabin yes there is lots of info on that but rach?(his school mate, i think at the school piano comp he got second and sergey got first place), if you must stretch to get there i know the rach tchaikovsky deal is easier to establish so my reccommedation is to consider
 different research premise (as the preludes link is weak, really more attributed to them both influenced by js bach)-i.e. chopin to scriabin, tchaikovsky to rachmaninoff, differences compositionally in rachaminoff and scriabin

i think you'll have an easier time finding good relevant and thourough research going the above route, im afraid the arugment on a chopin to rachmaninoff would be weak except for some very general romanticism conventions that could be said of just about any other 'romantic' composer, which is why sergey was criticized since he was a bit old fanshioned in that regard (born a little too late i suppose)

[pytheamateur]

Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is that Chopin had a huge influence on Mily Balakirev, who was a leading figure in Russian music. One of his "followers" was Rimsky-Korsakov, who I believe had some influence on Rachmaninoff.

I read somewhere that Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff did not get on with each other.  Rimsky-Korsakov apparently thought very little of Rachmaninoff.