Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff)

The Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, op 1 is the first composition in this genre in the works of the Russian composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff.

Formation

Rachmaninoff wrote the concerto in the years 1890/91 at the age of 17 years, even as he studied at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1917, shortly before his emigration to the U.S., he revised the work fundamentally.

About the Music

Full Sequence

Analysis

In his first Piano Concerto Rachmaninov based on models of romance. So remember that the work introductory chord and Oktavketten on the piano concertos by Grieg and Robert Schumann. While the piano with his designated as a "third hand" middle voice also oriented to Schumann, the harmony goes back to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The transition between the middle and final set is based on the respective block transition from Piano Concerto No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Despite the focus on the models of romanticism evident in Rachmaninov's first piano concerto first approaches to developing musical language of the composer. This is even more evident in the 1917 revised form of the concerto, in which the concert stylistically Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 4 approaches.

Effect

On March 14, 1892, the first movement of the concerto was premiered in Moscow; for the first time fully came the concert in 1900 in London.

Today, the plant plays in the concert repertoires of both overall and within Rachmaninov Create a subordinate role.