Abstract
Abstract Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was born at his father’s estate at Oneg, near Semyonovo in the district of Starorusky, Russia, on 1 April 1873 and died in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 March 1943. Rachmaninoff began The Bells, settings of a poem by Konstantin Balmont after Edgar Allan Poe, in January 1913 and completed the four sections respectively on 28 June, 13 July, 30 July, and 9 August of that year. With soloists E. I. Popova, A. D. Alexandrov, and P. Z. Andreyev, and the chorus and orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, the composer conducted the first performance on 13 December 1913. The work is dedicated to Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, with whom Rachmaninoff had had an exceptionally happy experience in 1908 in performances of his Piano Concerto No. 2.
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