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A Picture - A Story (1): Lily Pons
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
Elger Niels
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Reports from Ernst Zurmühle to Sergei Rachmaninoff (1931-33)
These reports from neighbor, vegetable grower Ernst Zurmühle (1899-1990) about the activities and construction work on the grounds of the...
wadevoogd
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Early Post-war correspondence between attorney Albert Riedweg, Natalie Rachmaninoff and Crédit Suisse
Very informative correspondence (one letter and one carbon copy and a draft letter) dated May 17th 1944 and January 9th 1946 between...
wadevoogd
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Correspondence concerning Right of Way near SENAR
Two letters dated July 9th and August 1945 between attorney Alfred Graber and Rachmaninoff’s former manager Charles Foley (on behalf of...
wadevoogd
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Decision of the Cantonal War Tax Administration (1932)
Through his Lucerne attorney Albert Riedweg, Sergei Rachmaninoff appealed against the tax assessment imposed for the year 1931. The...
wadevoogd
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