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Composer of Silence. Sergei Rachmaninov

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In 1882, he was reluctantly accepted into the Conservatory, doubting the abilities of a provincial boy. In 1891, he graduated with a gold medal. His "diploma" opera was staged at the Bolshoi Theater, and Tchaikovsky himself praised it.

At eighteen, he fell in love with his best friend's wife and dedicated his First Symphony to her, and at twenty-nine, he married his own cousin, having received permission for this marriage from the Emperor himself.

In 1897, his First Symphony suffered a crushing failure, after which he was forced to undergo treatment for depression for four years.

In 1917, after a series of triumphs, he, the famous composer, pianist and conductor, leaves Russia, losing his home forever and unable to stay where everything that was this home was destroyed...
To become forever a symbol of Russian music throughout the world.

Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote that "music is a quiet moonlit night." Musicologists compare the rhythm of his famous tiny pauses with the rhythm of breathing. Margarita Mamich's biographical novel is an attempt to hear a living voice behind this silence.
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