He underwent hypnosis therapy before returning to composition, and won a gold medal for his one-act opera Aleko.
He underwent hypnosis therapy before returning to composition, and won a gold medal for his one-act opera Aleko. An Edgar Allan Poe poem provided the inspiration for his tone poem The Bells, while it was an Arnold Bocklin painting resulted in his work The Isle of the Dead. Inspired by a work of 24 Caprices by a certain violinist, he composed what may be his best-known work. For ten points, name this Russian composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
He underwent hypnosis therapy before returning to composition, and won a gold medal for his one-act opera Aleko.
Sergey Vasilyevich {Rachmaninoff}