Morceaux de Fantaisie Op. 3 , Sergei Rachmaninow. Piano

Morceaux de fantaisie Opus 3

Composer: Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninoff
Editor: Dominik Rahmer
Marc-André Hamelin (Fingering)

Urtext Edition, paperbound
Piano solo
Pages 50 (VII+43), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Weight 214 g
HN 1491 · ISMN 979-0-2018-1491-9

Sergei Rachmaninoff embarked on his compositional career with five short piano pieces, which he presented for the first time in December 1892 in a concert in Charkow (now Kharkiv). The second piece, with the unremarkable title Prélude, is the famous Prélude in C sharp minor which was soon played throughout the world and was to become Rachmaninoffs most-performed encore. But the other pieces, quite different in character, continue to enjoy general popularity amongst pianists to this day. For they are all typical Rachmaninoff and at the same time technically easy to master, even for amateurs. The edition is based on the first edition and the autograph preserved in the Glinka Museum, Moscow. As well as the original version of 1892, this Urtext edition also includes two revisions which Rachmaninoff made of Mélodie and Sérénade almost 50 years later in the USA, thereby allowing a direct insight into his changed pianistic ideas. The fingering is by the Rachmaninoff expert Marc-André Hamelin.

Content Morceaux de Fantaisie op. 3

• Élegie op. 3,1
• Prélude c sharp minor op. 3,2
• Mélodie op. 3,3
• Polichinelle op. 3,4
• Sérénade op. 3,5
• Appendix
  Mélodie, 2. version 1940
  Sérénade, 2. version 1940