Scott Davie, a pianist and lecturer in Russian music history at the Sydney Conservatorium, recently found an unpublished sketch by Rachmaninoff in the composer’s archives at the Washington Library of Congress.
Whilst researching for his PhD on the composer’s melodies, Davies was amazed to uncover a two page sketch in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s hand, it was hidden in a pile of blank manuscript pages where it had languished for possibly 60 years. Davie was permitted to make a copy, which he brought back to Sydney.
[Read more…] about Rachmaninoff DiscoveredDavie described it as; eclectic, short-form, pictorial, experimental, harmonically unpredictable and modern – in fact, this was possibly the most modern phase of his composing life.