Paris opera awaiting normalcy forges9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() In a 1939 interview he gave for the Musical Courier, Rachmaninov said, “I felt like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. Even Rachmaninov acknowledged feeling lost amid the music of most other twentieth-century composers. enormous popular success…is not likely to last,…” In general, critics dismissed his musical language as outmoded, as being far from the mainstream of twentieth-century musical styles-indeed, most considered his works as anachronisms, composed by a man whose style had not left the late nineteenth century. In the fifth edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Eric Blom wrote dismissively: “…as a composer can hardly be said to have belonged to his time at all,…His music is well constructed and effective, but monotonous in texture, which consists in essence mainly of artificial and gushing tunes…. ![]() Critical assessment of his abilities as composer, however, was harsh. Sergei Rachmaninov established his reputation early in his career as one of the twentieth- century’s foremost pianists and conductors. ![]()
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