Interest in music at the outstanding Russian composer and virtuosic pianist Sergei Rachmaninov appeared in early childhood.His mother Lyubov Petrovna gave him the first lessons of playing the piano.
At the age of nine, Rachmaninov entered the junior department of the St.Petersburg Conservatory.The training went badly due to frequent absence and parents transferred him to Moscow, a private boarding house of the professor of the Moscow Conservatory, a pianist and strict teacher Nikolai Zverev.
He was admitted to the third year of the junior branch of the conservatory at the same time.
Rachmaninov studied at the Moscow Conservatory at once on two classes and graduated from both classes perfectly, having received a gold medal as a pianist and composer.The greater gift of fate was the meeting with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who recognized the potential of the young musician, and therefore strongly supported and promoted the student Rachmaninov.
It is suffice to mention that the thesis work - opera “Aleko”, written by a budding composer on the libretto of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko on A.S.Pushkin's poem "Gypsies", was staged on the Bolshoi Theater and had an impressive success.
However, when Tchaikovsky died, Rachmaninov's career was suspended.The only source of income for 2-3 years for the young composer was private music lessons.Another philanthropist - Savva Mamontov helped Rachmaninov to go to the big stage.
He organized the Moscow Russian private opera, in which he invited Sergei Vasilievich as conductor.Fedor Shalyapin, still little known singer was in the troupe of the theater.
The friendship between the two musical geniuses began and lasted a lifetime.
Rachmaninoff went on tour to Europe - Sweden, Denmark at the end of 1917, from where he had not returned.A year later, he moved to the United States, where he gained fame as a virtuoso pianist.
Until the end of the days, Sergei Vasilievich yearned for Russia, during the Great Patriotic War, he sent to the Defense Fund the entire fee received for his performances in New York.
The Turkmen musicians presented works that most clearly express the creative credo of the symbolist composer in a concert dedicated to Sergey Rachmaninov. One of them - Concert No. 2 for pianoforte and orchestra - was performed by People's Artist of Turkmenistan Orazgul Annamuradova. Stella Faramazova was in the duet with her on the second instrument laureate of international competitions.
Rhapsody on Paganini's theme for piano and orchestra made a huge impression on the audience.The eighth variation from Rhapsody has many arrangements, among which the musical language of Rachmaninov is the most original, passionate, and romantic.
The third-year student of the conservatory Aibolek Muhyeva, the winner of the violin competition, who recently ended in Armenia, performed this work.
Honored Artist of Turkmenistan Vladimir Mkrtumov, masterfully transferred the richness of the rhythmic design of the work, performed sonata for piano No. 2.
Turkmen pianist Bahar Annadurdyeva presented two compostions - "The Musical Moment" and "Etudes-Pictures". Bahar managed with talent to interpret the imagery of the Rachmaninov style.
The audience received a tremendous emotional charge from the works of an outstanding Russian composer in the talented performance of Turkmen musicians. All performances were met with a flurry of enthusiastic applause.