In addition to a 78 rpm record with arias from Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, we also found a signed portrait picture at SENAR. The almost perfect condition of the photo testifies to Rachmaninoff's particular appreciation for this gift. Sergei Rachmaninoff's love of the human voice shines through in his groundbreaking choral works and songs. Even when he was no longer setting poems to music in the West, the human voice could still move him profoundly. Biographies of

Many a Rachmaninoff enthusiast might have wondered whether the hint of Rachmaninoff in the harmonies of the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos is merely coincidence or a direct influence of the Russian on the Brazilian. A resounding answer to that question can be found in the choral repertoire that Villa-Lobos developed for the project set up to benefit national music education: Canto Orfeônico. For these songbooks, Villa-Lobos not only adapted native or popular Brazilian music, but

First glimpse into Rachmaninoff’s Collection of Printed Sheet Music

Rachmaninoff Network to open newly rebuilt www.rachmaninoff.org

Left to right: Michel Poels, Daan Verlaan, Elsbeth Gerritsen, Esther Putter and Sandro Russo receiving enthusiastic applause for their...

[Members of the Rachmaninoff Society together with Sophia Satin (centre) in the mid 1990s] Throughout its existence, the International Rachmaninoff Society (the forerunner of the Rachmaninoff Network) developed and supported a variety of pioneering initiatives. Such as the publication and performance of music that was barely or not at all available until the start of the 21st century. Today, this is hard to imagine. Yet, it was not even four decades ago that copies of Rachman

These reports from neighbor, vegetable grower Ernst Zurmühle (1899-1990) about the activities and construction work on the grounds of the...

Very informative correspondence (one letter and one carbon copy and a draft letter) dated May 17th 1944 and January 9th 1946 between...

Two letters dated July 9th and August 1945 between attorney Alfred Graber and Rachmaninoff’s former manager Charles Foley (on behalf of...

Through his Lucerne attorney Albert Riedweg, Sergei Rachmaninoff appealed against the tax assessment imposed for the year 1931. The...

The sculpture of Rachmaninoff's hands is one of a series made by the popular sculptor, designer and ceramic artist Helen Liedloff in the...

From 2016 to 2021 the Rachmaninoff Network carried out the stabilization, digitization of the unseen collection at Sergei Rachmaninoff's...

The sculpture of Rachmaninoff's hands is one of a series made by the popular sculptor, designer and ceramic artist Helen Liedloff in the...

Although we do not yet have the financial resources to realize the Sergei Rachmaninoff International Database, behind the scenes work is...

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