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Given a deadline of one month to write the opera, Rachmaninoff (the only one of the three seniors in the class to finish the job on time) submitted the score in less than three weeks (for exact dates, see T/N, 178-80). The libretto, patchily contrived for pedagogical purposes by the Moscow critic and dramaturge Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, invited comparison, in its verismo plot of jealousy and murderous revenge, with Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, a recent hit at the Bolshoi (for details, see Richard Taruskin: “Aleko,” The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992). It was composed in 1892 as a final diploma project at the Conservatory. Aleko was never imagined as a career-launching move, but that is what it turned out to be. By the time the young composer reached his twentieth birthday, on 2 April 1893, rehearsals were already under way. An opera, however, based on Alexander Pushkin’s brilliant narrative poem Tsygany (The Gypsies, 1824), was an important musical event. He was known before that to insiders at the Moscow Conservatory, where he performed some of his early piano works.
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Preface The Moscow public first learned of a young composer named Sergei Rachmaninoff in the spring of 1893, when the Bolshoi Theater announced production of his one-act opera Aleko. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Rachmaninoff’s complete songs : a companion with texts and translations / Richard D. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sylvester, Richard D., author, translator. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. Sylvester All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA Telephone 80 Fax 81 © 2014 by Richard D. Illustration on page iv: Leonid Pasternak. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington & Indianapolis A Companion with Texts and Translations Russian Music Studies Malcolm Hamrick Brown, founding editor