" Liturgies and masses composed by famous composers such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and Mykola Leontovych are fine examples of this,

Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes.

* 1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff

Arriving in San Francisco after having been released from questioning by immigration officials on Angel Island on 11 August 1918, Prokofiev was soon compared to other famous Russian exiles ( such as Sergei Rachmaninoff ), and he started out successfully with a solo concert in New York, leading to several further engagements.

* Spring ( Rachmaninoff ), a single-movement cantata written by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1902

* March 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer ( b. 1873 )

) – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist ( d. 1943 )

* Sergei Rachmaninoff — Oriental Sketch ( 1917 )

The early modernist composers, such as Richard Strauss, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Max Reger contributed to the genre.

Some composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius ' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, Saint Vartan — originally op.

But Grieg-inspired Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote 4 piano concertos between 1891 and 1926.

Masterpieces were written by Edward Elgar ( a violin concerto and a cello concerto ), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner ( four and three piano concertos, respectively ), Jean Sibelius ( a violin concerto ), Frederick Delius ( a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello ), Karol Szymanowski ( two violin concertos and a " Symphonie Concertante " for piano ), and Richard Strauss ( two horn concertos, a violin concerto, Don Quixote — a tone poem which features the cello as a soloist — and among later works, an oboe concerto ).

Sergei Rachmaninoff owned two New York models in his Beverly Hills home and one New York model D-274 in his New York home ; however, he chose a Hamburg model D-274 for his Villa Senar in Switzerland.

Steinway Artist Sergei Rachmaninoff at a Steinway grand piano

A few examples of Steinway Artists are Daniel Barenboim, Harry Connick, Jr., Billy Joel, Evgeny Kissin, Diana Krall, Lang Lang ; and a few examples of " immortals " are Benjamin Britten, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Vladimir Horowitz, Cole Porter and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Image: Rachmaninoff-Chopin Waltz E flat major-Steinway grand piano. ogg | Sergei Rachmaninoff performing on a Steinway grand piano waltz in E flat major, Op.

His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus, to the classical piano of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

In the 20th century Russian music was credited with such influential composers as Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinski, Georgy Sviridov, and Alfred Schnittke.

Russian composers who reached a high status in the world of music include Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Prokofiev, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Later in his career, Culhane worked briefly in Chuck Jones's unit at Warner Bros, before moving on to being a director for Lantz, where he helmed Woody Woodpecker's 1944 classic, The Barber of Seville, the cartoon famous for one of the first uses of fast cutting, after taking the idea from Sergei Eisenstein.

Gutiérrez uses a dizzying array of materials and filmic styles in Memories, from documentary-style narrative sequences which use long unbroken shots taken from handheld cameras to agitational montage sequences reminiscent of the films of early Soviet filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein.

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

* Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances ( 1940 )

In December 1992, the London CD review magazine designated the recording he made with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of the Symphonic Dances and The Isle of the Dead by Sergei Rachmaninoff as one of the best recordings made in 1992.

Also, two arrangements of outside composers ' pieces figure on the Palmer side: one of Johann Sebastian Bach's baroque D Minor Invention # 4, BWV 775, and a piece titled ' The Enemy God Dances With the Black Spirits ', an excerpt of the 2nd movement of " The Scythian Suite " by Sergei Prokofiev ( 1891-1953 ), written in 1915.

# " The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits " ( Sergei Prokofiev, arr.

* Fanning, David, Notes to Deutsche Grammophon 437785, Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death ; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14, Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano ; Ljuba Kazarnovskaya, soprano ; Sergei Leiferkus, bass ; Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

The piano soloist was Sergei Taneyev ; the other performers are unknown.

He put the finishing touches to the Trio by 9 February ( the score is annotated " Rome 28 January-9 February 1882 "), and sent it to his publishers on 11 February, asking that Sergei Taneyev appear as piano soloist at the first performance.

The Moscow premiere took place on November 21 / December 3, 1875, with Sergei Taneyev as soloist.

Seven, They Are Seven () is a cantata by Sergei Prokofiev composed in 1917 for large orchestra, chorus, and dramatic tenor soloist.

Kuleshov may well be the very first film theorist as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory — developing his theories of editing before those of Sergei Eisenstein ( briefly a student of Kuleshov ) and Vsevolod Pudovkin.

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

Prokofiev's first major success breaking out of the composer-pianist mould was with his purely orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes ; Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev – Chout, Le pas d ' acier and The Prodigal Son – which at the time of their original production were all highly successful.

Prokofiev made his first foreign trip in 1913, travelling to Paris and London where he first encountered Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer ( there is a crater on the lunar far side which bears his name ).

* January 31 – Sergei Ivanov, first deputy prime minister of Russia and former minister of defense of Russia

He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird ( 1910 ), Petrushka ( 1911 ) and The Rite of Spring ( 1913 ).

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.

In the first years of the Ballets Russes Pavlova worked briefly for Sergei Diaghilev.

Alexander Karpovtsev, Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Nemchinov, and Sergei Zubov became the first Russians to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup.

It was first introduced in English in the mid-1990s when Ukrainian emigrant Sergei Ganin created Socionics. com.

That incident, plus injuries to the lineup including Brad Richards and Sergei Zubov caused the Stars to tailspin to a 12th place finish, and the first missed playoffs for Dallas since 2002.

* Sergei Nilus ( 1862 – 1929 ), Russian religious writer and self-described mystic, one of the first publishers of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The first tombs were excavated by the archaeologist Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko beginning in the 1920s.

Sergei Fedorov, first European trained player to win it, one-time winner.

Also interred within Kensico Cemetery and Gate of Heaven Cemetery are the big band leader Tommy Dorsey ; the New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno ; the former CBS News president Fred Friendly ; the legendary New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig ; the film star and comedian Danny Kaye ; the virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff ; the author Ayn Rand ; NBC founder David Sarnoff ; and the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West.

Sergei Rachmaninoff first attended Rubinstein's historical concerts as a twelve-year-old piano student.

He originally asked Sergei Rachmaninoff to be the Philharmonic's first music director ; however, Rachmaninoff had only recently moved to New York, and he did not wish to move again.

** Season opening of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, in Paris, with the first performances of Igor Stravinsky's Renard and Sergei Prokofiev's Le Fils prodigue.

Its name is derived from Sergei Korolyov, the first chief of its design bureau, and the Russian word for energy.

It is named after the first chief of its design bureau Sergei Korolyov ( 1946 – 1966 ).