Goodbye Russia

Rachmaninoff in Exile

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Rachmaninoff left Russia during the 1917 Revolution and died in Beverly Hills in 1943 having composed only six new works and without ever returning home. The classical music critic for the Observer, Fiona Maddocks uses a wide range of sources, including newly translated texts, to investigate what Rachmaninoff’s life in exile was like and why he put aside his career as composer and conductor to reinvent himself as a virtuoso pianist.

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