{"id":26950,"date":"2010-12-21T00:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T08:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=26950"},"modified":"2010-12-21T00:45:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T08:45:01","slug":"rachmaninoff-etude-tableau-op-39-no-2-in-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=26950","title":{"rendered":"Rachmaninoff &#8211; Etude-tableau Op.39 No.2 in A minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory: One of the most soothing pieces of music ever written, and very melancholy but beautiful:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PJuUkRuTJCw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PJuUkRuTJCw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergei_Rachmaninoff\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff<\/b><sup id=\"cite_ref-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergei_Rachmaninoff#cite_note-0\"><span>[<\/span>1<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>  (<small>Russian pronunciation: <\/small><span title=\"Pronunciation in  IPA\" class=\"IPA\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:IPA_for_Russian\" title=\"Wikipedia:IPA for Russian\">[s\u02b2\u026ar\u02c8\u0261\u02b2ej r\u0250x\u02c8man\u02b2\u026an\u0259f]<\/a><\/span>; 1  April 1873 \u2013 28 March 1943) was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russians\" title=\"Russians\">Russian<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergei_Rachmaninoff#cite_note-1\"><span>[<\/span>2<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>  composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one  of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, perhaps the last  great representative of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romantic_music\" title=\"Romantic  music\">Romanticism<\/a> in classical music.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergei_Rachmaninoff#cite_note-2\"><span>[<\/span>3<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>  Early influences of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky\" title=\"Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky\">Tchaikovsky<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikolai_Rimsky-Korsakov\" title=\"Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov\">Rimsky-Korsakov<\/a>, and other Russian  composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom that included a  pronounced lyricism, expressive breadth, structural ingenuity, and a  tonal palette of rich, distinctive orchestral colors.<sup id=\"cite_ref-ng707_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergei_Rachmaninoff#cite_note-ng707-3\"><span>[<\/span>4<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>  The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff&#8217;s compositional  output. He made a point of using his own skills as a performer to  explore fully the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Even in  his earliest works he revealed a sure grasp of idiomatic piano writing  and a striking gift for melody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory: One of the most soothing pieces of music ever written, and very melancholy but beautiful: According to Wikipedia: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff[1] (Russian pronunciation: [s\u02b2\u026ar\u02c8\u0261\u02b2ej r\u0250x\u02c8man\u02b2\u026an\u0259f]; 1 April 1873 \u2013 28 March 1943) was a Russian[2] composer, pianist, and conductor. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=26950\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26952,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950\/revisions\/26952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}