Composer of Silence. Sergei Rachmaninoff

In 1882, he was reluctantly accepted into the Conservatory, doubting the abilities of a provincial boy. In 1891, he graduated with a gold medal. His "diploma" opera was staged at the Bolshoi Theatre, praised by Tchaikovsky himself.
At eighteen, he fell... in love with the wife of his best friend and dedicated his First Symphony to her, and at twenty-nine he married his own cousin, having received permission for this marriage from the emperor himself.

In 1897, his First Symphony suffered a crushing failure, after which he was forced to undergo four years of treatment for depression.
In 1917, after a series of triumphs, he, a famous composer, pianist, and conductor, left Russia, forever losing his home and unable to stay where everything that was his home had been destroyed...
To forever become a symbol of Russian music around the world.
Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote that "music is a quiet moonlit night." Musicologists compare the rhythm of his famous tiny pauses to the rhythm of breathing. Margarita Mamich's biographical novel is an attempt to hear a living voice behind this silence.
This book continues the series on outstanding figures in art. It has already published popular works about Amedeo Modigliani, Egon Schiele, Hieronymus Bosch, and Wassily Kandinsky.