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    A lasting legacy

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    Rachmaninov: 15 facts about the great composer

    Sergei Rachmaninov

    15. A lasting legacy

    Only a decade after Rachmaninov’s death, the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians predicted that the ‘enormous popular success some few of Rachmaninov’s works had in his lifetime is not likely to last, and musicians never regarded them with much favour.’ They could not have been more wrong.

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