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Sergei Rachmaninoff

1873 - 1943

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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output and he used his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Rachmaninoff is the 32nd most popular composer (down from 24th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Russia (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Composer.

Sergei Rachmaninoff is most famous for his piano concertos, which are considered some of the best of all time.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 32 out of 1,451. Before him are Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Jacques Offenbach, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Ennio Morricone. After him are Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and Domenico Scarlatti.

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Among people born in 1873, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 1. After him are Thérèse of Lisieux, Thomas Andrews, Enrico Caruso, Johannes V. Jensen, Lee de Forest, Leon Czolgosz, Konstantin von Neurath, Colette, Jules Rimet, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Alexis Carrel. Among people deceased in 1943, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 3. Before him are Nikola Tesla, and David Hilbert. After him are Pieter Zeeman, Karl Landsteiner, George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Isoroku Yamamoto, Simone Weil, Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, and Boris III of Bulgaria.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 36 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), David Hilbert (1862), and Yul Brynner (1920). After him are Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), and Vyacheslav Molotov (1890).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff ranks 4. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Igor Stravinsky (1882), and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906). After him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904).

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