Abstract
Despite the continuously growing interest in the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, his piano music still contains compositions which have remained un studied in full measure. These works include the Sonata No. 1 for piano, opus 28 in D minor. Various versions of the musical text of the composition are compared in the article, including the three preserved manuscripts. The following musical score texts are examined: the manuscript which belonged to Konstantin Igumnov (dated May 14, 1907); two autograph scores (from September 17, 1907 and March 30, 1908); early publications of the Sonata (the first publication from 1908 in the company “A. Gutheil”; the British publication from 1908 by “Hawkes & Son”) and the most popular Russian editions (from 1948, 1964, 1981 and 2012). The author also analyzes certain moments of the composer’s biography, which present the possibility to gain insight into the reasons for the fragmentarily cardinal differences between the various manuscripts. The methods used in the research make it possible to approach an objective understanding of the composer’s conception and the arising doubts in the genuineness of the musical score text which may appear in the pianist’s mind during the process of work on Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 1 for piano. Keywords: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sonata No. 1 for piano, musical score autograph, Konstantin Igumnov, musical text.
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