" 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.

Pioneering historian of the Red Terror Sergei Melgunov claims that this was done deliberately in an attempt to demonstrate the government's humanity.

However, the leadership was not opening up ; Kamenev and Zinoviev were arrested in 1932 ( or in the beginning of 1933 ), and set free in 1934, and than rearrested in 1935, accused of being part of an assassination plot which killed Sergei Kirov.

Yzerman was joined by Sergei Fedorov, who would be an award-winner and frequent all-star for the team in the 1990s.

Sergei Eisenstein was briefly a student of Kuleshov's, but the two parted ways because they had different ideas of montage.

Sergei Eisenstein developed a system of editing that was unconcerned with the rules of the continuity system of classical Hollywood that he called Intellectual montage.

This changed in 1953 when Sergei Korolyov was directed to start development of a true ICBM able to deliver newly developed hydrogen bombs.

One of his teachers in later life was Sergei Bongart, who went on to own two of Cagney's paintings.

Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, René Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.

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.

After the city's capture in April 1920, Beria was saved from execution only because there was no time to arrange it and Sergei Kirov saved him.

But the new chief, Sergei Kruglov, was not a Beria man.

At about this time Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic which was slightly broader than Greenberg's grouping but which similarly left out Afroasiatic.

40 in 1911 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and was danced by Nijinski.

He resigned at the PES Progressive Convention of Brussels on 24th November 2011, and was replaced by Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev, chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), elected PES Interim President, by acclamation, by the PES Presidency.

Starting from 1952, works were held in the Moscow-based Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering ( headed by Sergei Lebedev ) on automated missile defense system which used a " computer network " which calculated radar data on test missiles through central machine called M-40 and was interchanging information with smaller remote terminals about 100 — 200 kilometers distant.

The problem was further compounded by the failure of Sergei Witte's land reforms of the early 20th century.

Widely read and loved in the Soviet Union, Bradbury relates the following meeting with Sergei Bondarchuk, director of soviet 1967 epic War and Peace, at a Hollywood award ceremony in Bondarchuk's honor: " They formed a long queue and as Bondarchuk was walking along it he recognized several people:

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 ) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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.

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 ).

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein ( 23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948 ), né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the " Father of Montage ".

In 1920, Sergei was transferred to a command position in Minsk, after success providing propaganda for the October Revolution.

Eisenstein was thence able to ingratiate himself with Stalin for ' one more chance ', and he chose, from two offerings, the assignment of a biopic of Alexander Nevsky, with music composed by Sergei Prokofiev.