COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWO VARIANTS OF THE SECOND VERSION OF RACHMANINOFF’S FIRST PIANO CONCERTO
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Information about authors: Chestnova Nadezhda Igorevna, Sr Instructor, Department of Musical Instrument Training, Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation). E-mail: n.chestnova@mail.ru
Annotation: This article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of the two variants of the Second version of Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto. Until now, it is not widely known that the Second version of this Concerto has two variants which were written in 1917 and 1919. First, Rachmaninoff turns to the revision of his early work in 1917 in Moscow where he composes the Second version of the Concerto. However, in 1919 while in New York, the composer decides to revise the Concerto again and introduces some changes to the 1917’s variant and registers a Copyright for it as a new work. The article carries out an analysis of the piano part of the two variants of the Concerto’s Second version which helps follow the peculiarities of the author’s editing and reveal the causes of the appearance of the new variant. The emphasis is placed on the author’s fundamentally different approach to the editing work and on the particularity of pianistic thinking of Rachmaninoff as a composer. The 1917’s variant was a profound creative rethinking of the youth work, whereas the 1919’s variant had more of a “facelift” nature – its appearance was dictated by the stage experience of playing the Concerto and the need to officially publish it in the USA – because Soviet Russia did not join 1886 Bern international copyright convention, therefore foreign publishers couldfreely print Rachmaninov works already published in Russia before. The article also gives a chronologically uncommon history of the publication of the above-mentioned variants in Russia.
Keywords: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 1, Revised (Second) Version, comparative analysis of the versions
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Information about authors: Chestnova Nadezhda Igorevna, Sr Instructor, Department of Musical Instrument Training, Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation). E-mail: n.chestnova@mail.ru
Annotation: This article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of the two variants of the Second version of Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto. Until now, it is not widely known that the Second version of this Concerto has two variants which were written in 1917 and 1919. First, Rachmaninoff turns to the revision of his early work in 1917 in Moscow where he composes the Second version of the Concerto. However, in 1919 while in New York, the composer decides to revise the Concerto again and introduces some changes to the 1917’s variant and registers a Copyright for it as a new work. The article carries out an analysis of the piano part of the two variants of the Concerto’s Second version which helps follow the peculiarities of the author’s editing and reveal the causes of the appearance of the new variant. The emphasis is placed on the author’s fundamentally different approach to the editing work and on the particularity of pianistic thinking of Rachmaninoff as a composer. The 1917’s variant was a profound creative rethinking of the youth work, whereas the 1919’s variant had more of a “facelift” nature – its appearance was dictated by the stage experience of playing the Concerto and the need to officially publish it in the USA – because Soviet Russia did not join 1886 Bern international copyright convention, therefore foreign publishers couldfreely print Rachmaninov works already published in Russia before. The article also gives a chronologically uncommon history of the publication of the above-mentioned variants in Russia.
Keywords: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 1, Revised (Second) Version, comparative analysis of the versions
