conductor

music

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

composer

intellectual movement

Romanticism

pianist

romantic music

musicologist

virtuoso

religion

Eastern Orthodox Church

cause of death

natural causes

race / ethnicity

Russian Americans

is, when good, like good chauffeur; concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.

A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.

is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer.

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!

is a stuff that comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart.

is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow.

is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei RachmaninoffThinkers

Sergei Rachmaninoff