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

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...

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

Contents of Rachmaninoff's NYC music cabinet digitally captured

In his book Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings, Max Harrison states that the virtuoso English pianist Cyril Smith once said that...

Reconstructing Rachmaninoff's case Around January 1900 Sergei Rachmaninoff went into hypnotherapy with Nikolai Vladimirovich Dahl. He...

Interesting article on Rachmaninoff's fourth piano concerto and its revisions https://limelightmagazine.com.au/features/the-real-rach-4/

Stephen Johnson explores Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony (opus 27) and shows where the Dies Irae theme is used. From the BBC...

The following essay, by the great poet Vsladislav Khodasevich, was published in the book `Necropol'', a copy of which I found by chance...

Fascinating musical analysis of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead.

Blair Johnston speaks about Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances," op. 45. The Library of Congress now holds all of the significant...

Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote an article for Etude magazine in 1910. In this article titled "Ten Important Attributes Of Beautiful Pianoforte...