Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor, Op. 30

Composer: RACHMANINOV, Sergei
  • Rachmaninoff wrote this concerto in the summer of 1909, for a concert tour in America that began in November of that year.1
  • Rachmaninoff gave the first performance of this concerto on November 28, 1909, at the New Theater in New York. The orchestra was the New York Symphony Society (which would become the New York Symphony Orchestra) and the conductor was Walter Damrosch.2
  • Rachmaninoff dedicated this concerto to Polish pianist Josef Hoffmann,3 a virtuoso whom Rachmaninoff admired greatly, but whose career would be cut tragically short by alcoholism.  

Sources

  1. Geoffrey Norris, “Rachmaninoff [Rakhmaninov, Rachmaninov], Serge,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed April 1, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000050146.
  2. “Piano Concerto No.3, Op. 30 (Rachmaninoff, Sergei),” IMSLP, accessed April 1, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.3%2C_Op.30_(Rachmaninoff%2C_Sergei).
  3. Ibid.

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