January 4 1909 (Julian calendar)

This appears to have been the first performance by Rachmaninoff of his First Piano Sonata, which Threlfall and Norris (citing Oskar von Riesemann) indicated occurred at the Moscow Conservatory. The Sonata had first been performed by Konstantin Igumnov on October 17, 1908. Satina noted that this was the 2nd Chamber Music Concert of the Quartet of the Imperial Russian Music Society in Moscow. A review in Moskovskiye Vedomosti on January 9, which is attached, indicates that Rachmaninoff played three of his preludes as an encore, while the review by Grigory Prokofiev in the Russkaya Muzikal'naya Gazeta provides the details: Prelude in D minor, op. 23, no. 3, Prelude in G minor, op. 23, no. 5, and Prelude in G flat major, op. 23, no. 10. Vladimir Bakaleinikov, the violist in the quartet, would later conduct concerts in America with Rachmaninoff (see November 28 and 30, 1941, and July 17 and 18, 1942). LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.