Here we see this antique postcard from 1916 with a nice pencil drawing from the famous young Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Teacher and Writer Franz Liszt (1811-1886).
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Introduction:
In the illustrious realm of jazz, certain figures stand out not just for their talent but for the transformative impact they’ve had on their respective instruments. Joe Pass, the virtuoso jazz guitarist, is undoubtedly one such luminary. Born ninety-five years ago today on January 13, 1929, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and leaving an indelible mark until his passing on May 23,…
OTD in Music History: Legendary composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) makes his first public appearance as a concert pianist, at the “Moscow Electrical Exhibition” in 1892. Among other things, he performed his own “Morceaux de Fantaisie” (Op. 3) -- a then-four-part piano suite which included one of the most famous pieces he would ever compose, the “Prelude in c#.”
Rachmaninoff was paid 50 rubles for this appearance. That doesn't mean much to us today... so as a point of comparison, we can note that he was paid only *40* rubles (which was still approximately two months’ worth of wages for a common factory worker in Russia at that time) by a music publisher in exchange for the *copyright* to the entire “Morceaux de Fantaisie” set. Of course, had Rachmaninoff merely held onto the copyright in the Prelude in c# *alone*, it would have made him a fortune down the line…
Rachmaninoff originally conceived of the “Morceaux” as a set of four pieces, but he ended up adding a fifth piece after reading an interview which Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) granted to a Russian newspaper critic a few weeks after his debut public concert, in which he cited Rachmaninoff as one of the most outstanding young musicians in Russia. Rachmaninoff idolized Tchaikovsky, and was thrilled by this praise.
As he later recounted: "I immediately sat down at the piano and composed a fifth piece (the ‘Serenade’) on the spot." Rachmaninov premiered this five-piece version of the suite at a subsequent concert appearance in December 1892, and two months later he also gave Tchaikovsky one of the first copies of the newly-published score to the set. (Tchaikovsky loved it.)
PICTURED: A c. 1900 real photo postcard, showing a young Rachmaninoff as he would have appeared at the beginning of his international concert career.