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Sergei Rachmaninoff: tags: [composer]

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[1873 - 1943]
a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.

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I moved on to Nirvana's Lithium. I was sure that grunge-metal-punk would not find a happy audience on an equatorial atoll.

"It's very good," Tiabo said.

Now I was stumped. I tried a different tack. I inserted Rachmaninoff.

"I don't like this," Tiabo said.

Now we were getting somewhere.

J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.107 (2004)

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After tea, Oceola played. She played the Rachmaninoff Prelude in C Sharp Minor. The played from the Liszt Études. She played the St. Louis Blues. She played Ravel's Pavanne pour une Enfante Défunte. And then she had to go.

Langston Hughes. The Ways of White Folks: The Blues I'm Playing p.99 (1934)