Conductor - Diary entries
Many of the performance details listed here have been compiled from Zarui Apetian’s important research, published in Literaturnoye Nasledie [Collected Literature] (Sovietskii Kompozitor: Moscow, 1980, vol. 3, pp. 439-467). These details have been subsequently cross-referenced and checked with the many itineraries and other corroborating materials collected by Rachmaninoff’s sister-in-law, Sophia Satina, housed in the Rachmaninoff Archive of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R22, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89). Further information has been gathered from Barrie Martyn’s book Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor (Scolar Press: London, 1990, pp. 532-562), A Catalogue of the Compositions of S. Rachmaninoff by Robert Threlfall and Geoffrey Norris (Scolar Press: London, 1982), and research undertaken at the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.
November 30 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: There are few further details about this concert. It is not known who either Mr Schilling or Mr Possart were. Similarly, one might speculate that it was Liszt’s orchestration of Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy that was performed. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 16 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert, which began at 1.15pm on a Sunday, was part of Kerzin’s series of concerts, known as the Society of Lovers of Russian Music, and this was the first Symphony Concert sponsored by the Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 2 1905 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was a benefit concert held under the auspices of ‘the Kremlin Storage of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth to help wounded and sick soldiers’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.