“Rachmaninoff can’t even play his OWN PIECE!!”

While Rachmaninoff did enjoy a lot of success from his C# minor prelude, it’s rather unfortunate that he didn’t have the work copyrighted. He sold this prelude to his publisher for about a day’s wages worth, and ultimately missed out on an enormous profit. Some say that this work alone would’ve netted him ~$100,000 in profit!! Such was the magnitude of its popularity.

Sylvester, Richard D.. Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations. United States, Indiana University Press, 2014.

Seroff, Victor. Rachmaninoff. Kiribati, Cassell, 1951.

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Performed by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, 2015.

[funklover]

Would love to hear Rachmaninow improvising.

[yagirl]

Rachmaninoff even said that he wished he never wrote the piece in the first place...

[anti]

Why is the "Mr. C# Minor" thing so hilarious to me 😂

[jiplinnartz]

Rachmaninoff was hella depressed as well. Feel kinda bad for him that people treated hum that way…

[scottsmith]

He is a grossly underappreciated genius.

[humanseekingtruth]

They were seeing a genius not only perform his own piece that made him famous, but also saw him live, improvising and improving upon it, but they ridiculed him for it, how shameful and disrespectful. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[shayne]

Mozart used to say that the audience has ears of mules for quite a good reason...

[LuisSierra]

"I've composed other pieces, you know?" - Maurice Ravel 😂

[terranbricklin]

His full set of preludes is highly underrated. G minor is relatively popular and I would say much better than C#, but there are soooo many more.

[DmitriShostakovichDSCH]

poor rach. though i hadnt heard his c# minor prelude until this year; first piece of his i heard was symphonic dances

[jamesboone]

Are we going to talk about how his incredible piano concerto no. 2 was written as a gift to his doctor. I don't know about you, but I'd be honored to have a piece written about me.

[erika]

That final picture of him was legit frightening. Thanks for the nightmare fuel.

[rooroo]

The wild thing is there’s a recording of him playing the piece and people were still in the comments “correcting” his dynamics tempo etc. like give the man a break! he’s tryna keep it fresh. rip king

[alvaroselaya]

Tocaba lo que muchos hasta hoy no logran tocar... Déjenlo en paz.

[Hailey_Paige_]

His Cello Sonata in G Minor Op. 19 is absolutely stunning. Especially the 3rd Movement! ❤

[jackschieferdecker]

Who can blame him, I forever hate anything that I did when I was 19 haha

[dojocho]

The Vespers from Rachm...is some of the most epic music ever composed listen to Praise the Lord...amazing

[garypotter]

I’m currently learning the Polichinelle from the same opus as this prelude. People should check out this opus in its entirety

[fulltongrace]

It’s funny how he is known and famous to many for his piano pieces snd concertos, but I only know and listen to his brilliant orchestral works like the 2nd and 3rd symphonies and the Symphonic Dances.

[mypianoschat]

He actually wrote the peice from a nightmare that he had. Of him dying. Sad