Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

by Fiona Maddocks

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.

In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland--his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639365931
• ISBN13: 9781639365937
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"