The Trio Elegiaque No. 2, the opera The Miserly Knight, and variations on themes of Corelli and of Chopin are among his forty-five numbered works.
The Trio Elegiaque No. 2, the opera The Miserly Knight, and variations on themes of Corelli and of Chopin are among his forty-five numbered works. He wrote a choral symphony based on Poe entitled The Bells, as well as Six Musical Moments, the last of which features nonstop arpeggiated chords in both hands. Cesar Cui sharply criticized his 1896 Symphony No. 1, but he would later use material from that work, as well as the Dies Irae and a chant from his All-Night Vigil, in the last piece he wrote, Symphonic Dances. For ten points, name this Russian composer well-known for the brilliant second and third of his four piano concertos and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
The Trio Elegiaque No. 2, the opera The Miserly Knight, and variations on themes of Corelli and of Chopin are among his forty-five numbered works.
Sergei Vasilievich {Rachmaninoff}