7/4/2023 0 Comments The bells by edgar allan poe![]() ![]() Rachmaninoff wrote to his friend Nikita Morozov in December 1906, asking whether he could think of a suitable subject for a choral piece to follow his cantata Spring. The US Premiere of the work was given by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus on 6 February 1920 and the UK Premiere by Sir Henry Wood and the Liverpool Philharmonic and Chorus on 15 March 1921. ![]() Rachmaninoff dedicated The Bells to Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Rachmaninoff called the work both a choral symphony and (unofficially) his Third Symphony shortly after writing it however, he would later write a purely instrumental Third Symphony at his new villa in Switzerland. It was one of Rachmaninoff's two favorite compositions, along with his All-Night Vigil, and is considered by some to be his secular choral masterpiece. The traditional Gregorian melody Dies Irae is used frequently throughout the work. ![]() The words are from the poem The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe, very freely translated into Russian by the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. 35, is a choral symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1913 and premiered in St Petersburg on 30 November that year under the composer's baton. The Bells ( Russian: Колокола, Kolokola), Op. ![]()
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