Презентация по английскому языку на тему "Биография С.В. Рахманинова", 4-5-6 класс

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Жизнь и творчество
Сергея Васильевича Рахманинова

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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff

(1873 – 1943)

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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff is widely considered as one of the finest piano players of his day, a conductor, a composer and one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was born on the 1-st of April in 1873, in Oneg, near Velikij Novgorod.

He was born into a poor, aristocratic family of musicians and was surrounded by the music right from his childhood.

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His mother, Lyubov Petrovna Butakova, was the daughter of an army general, and showed keen interest in music.

At the age of four, Sergei Rachmaninoff started taking piano lessons from his mother.
Rachmaninoff’s family

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Rachmaninoff’s family



His father, Vasily Arkadyevich Rachmaninoff, was an army officer and a pianist.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

In 1882 the family moved to Saint Petersburg and Sergei Rachmaninoff joined the ‘Saint Petersburg Conservatory’ for his music studies.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Later, he joined the ‘Moscow Conservatory’ to train under Nikolai Zverev.
Sergei Rachmaninoff graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, and composed several musical pieces on the piano. These included the ‘Piano Concerto No. 1,’ and the ‘Trio elegiaque No. 1’.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff



During his final year at the ‘Moscow Conservatory,’ Sergei Rachmaninoff composed the opera ‘Aleko’ for his final composition examination

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 Famous Musical Works


‘Aleko’ received a lot of appreciation, and won him a gold medal and the highest marks at the ‘Conservatory.’

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In 1904, Sergei Rachmaninoff started to work as the conductor at the ‘Bolshoi Theatre’ in Moscow.

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In 1906, Rachmaninoff moved with his family to Dresden.
In 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff joined the ‘Boston Symphony Orchestra,’ on their tour of the United States. In the tour, Rachmaninoff gave 26 performances as a composer, 19 as a pianist, and 7 as a conductor.

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In 1917 Sergei Rachmaninoff received an offer to perform piano recitals in Scandinavia. Rachmaninoff accepted the offer, and left Russia along with his family.
In 1918, he moved to New York City, and spent the most of his later life in the city.
There he composed ‘Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,’ and ‘Symphony No. 3.’

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On the 28-th of March in 1943 he breathed his last.

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Rachmaninoff’s Music
His music was famous its brutal power, along with passionate melodies & harmonies that included dissonance.
However, while other composers started using atonality and other avantgard techniques, Rachmaninoff ‘s music remained Romantic.
Rachmaninoff’s music is considered very difficult both technically and emotionally to play right.
Some of the strong influences heard in his music include the church bells and traditional Orthodox church chant he heard in Moscow.