Abstract
The article includes the first publication and commentaries to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s letters to London connected to his first tour abroad in April 1899 preserved in the British Library. The addressee of the letters is Francesco Berger, who at that time held the post of the merited secretary of the London Royal Philharmonic Society. The letters are presented in the original German and in Russian translation by the author of the article. The material of the letters makes it possible to specify certain details of his work on the Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. The additional sources brought in for examination provide new information about the composer’s sojourn in London in the spring of 1899. Keywords: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninoff’s letters to London, Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Rachmaninoff’s debut abroad.
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