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composer biography
conservatoire studies
early twentieth century
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forthcoming
interpretation
Marfan syndrome
music analysis
music history
performance practice
piano repertoire
Romantic era
Russian piano music
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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- ISBN 9781837653386
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first in-depth study of Rachmaninoff's piano music, uncovering its history, style and the influences behind the composer's enduring masterpieces.
In recent decades, the piano music of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) has rapidly gained international recognition and now rivals that of Beethoven and Chopin in popularity. Increasingly performed not only in concert halls and in international piano competitions, it also figures prominently in college and faculty exam syllabuses. The Piano Music of Sergei Rachmaninoff is the first in-depth survey dealing exclusively with his piano music. It investigates every known piano work by Rachmaninoff, with particular attention given to historical context, circumstances of composition, musical style and structure, the influence of other composers and extra-musical stimuli. Norris not only uncovers many unknown inter-connections between earlier, often unpublished works and later compositions, but also explores aspects concerning Rachmaninoff's formation as a pianist and composer of piano music, including the possible influence of Marfan's syndrome on the unusual size of Rachmaninoff's hands and its notable impact on his pianistic style and content.
The book will be of interest to university courses on late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Russian music and will be essential reading for conservatoire teachers, students and professional pianists regarding interpretational aspects of Rachmaninoff's piano music.
JEREMY NORRIS studied piano at the Royal Northern College of Music, holds a piano performance diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, and has a PhD in Russian Music from Sheffield University. He has written articles on Russian music for European music journals and has published studies in piano didactics. His book The Russian Piano Concerto: The Nineteenth Century was published by Indiana University Press in 1994 and subsequently nominated "best academic book of 1995" by the American Library Association.
