Diary entries

November 10 1895 (Julian calendar)

Grodno, Belarus

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert was part of a tour with the violinist, Teresina Tua. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 12 1895 (Julian calendar)

Vilnius, Lithuania

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert was part of a tour with the violinist, Teresina Tua. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 13 1895 (Julian calendar)

Kaunas, Lithuania

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert was part of a tour with the violinist, Teresina Tua. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 15 1895 (Julian calendar)

Minsk, Belarus

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert was part of a tour with the violinist, Teresina Tua. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 17 1895 (Julian calendar)

Mogilev, Belarus

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert was part of a tour with the violinist, Teresina Tua. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 18 1895 (Julian calendar)

Mogilev, Belarus

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert was part of a tour with the violinist, Teresina Tua. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 22 1895 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: Threlfall and Norris note this performance, which was the premiere. Keldysh, citing a review in Russkiye Vedomosti, notes that Teresina Tua also performed in this concert (p. 97). LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 24 1895 (Julian calendar)

Smolensk, Russia
Assembly of the Nobility

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist and Chamber Musician

Notes: Satina believed that Rachmaninoff left the tour with the violinist, Teresina Tua, after this concert, an error that was repeated by Bertensson and Leyda (p. 67) and Harrison (p. 67). Various Russian sources confirm that Rachmaninoff continued on the tour as far as the second concert in Riga on December 5. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 26 1895 (Julian Calendar)

Vitebsk, Belarus

Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician and Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina believed that Rachmaninoff had left the concert tour with Teresina Tua by this time. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 28 1895 (Julian Calendar)

Riga, Latvia

Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician and Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina believed that Rachmaninoff had left the concert tour with Teresina Tua by this time. A review of the concert by A. Jacobs appeared in Rizhsky Vestnik on November 29, 185, no. 264, noting that Rachmaninoff played Rubinstein's Barcarolle, Chopin's Berceuse, Liszt's Waldesrauschen, the Tchaikovsky-Pabst Concert Paraphrase on Onegin, as well as Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, and Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 30 1895 (Julian Calendar)

Liepāja, Latvia

Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician and Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina believed that Rachmaninoff had left the concert tour with Teresina Tua by this time. Liepāja was known as Libava in 1895. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 2 1895 (Julian Calendar)

Vilnius, Lithuania
Military Assembly

Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician and Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina believed that Rachmaninoff had left the concert tour with Teresina Tua by this time. Vilnius was known as Vilno at the time of the concert. A review in Vilensky Vestnik on December 9, no. 266, notes Rachmaninoff playing Glinka's 'The Lark' in Balakirev's arrangement, Liszt's Waldesrauschen, the Gounod-Liszt Waltz from 'Faust', and Liszt's Valse-Impromptu, the last of which was repeated as an encore. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 3 1895 (Julian Calendar)

Daugavpils, Latvia

Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician and Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina believed that Rachmaninoff had left the concert tour with Teresina Tua by this time. Daugavpils was known as Dvinsk at the time of the concert. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 5 1895 (Julian Calendar)

Riga, Latvia

Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician and Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina believed that Rachmaninoff had left the concert tour with Teresina Tua by this time, however this was in fact the final concert in which Rachmaninoff played. Claiming that his contract with the tour promoter, Heinrich Langewitz, was void through non-payment of fees, Rachmaninoff did not proceed to concerts planned in Jelgava/Mitava (December 6), St Petersburg (December 8), Tartu/Derpt (December 10), Tallinn/Revel (December 11), St Petersburg (December 13), Pskov (December 15), Nizhny Novgorod (December 27). LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 12 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Hermitage Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: Chaliapin played the part of the Old Jew in this production. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 15 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Hermitage Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 19 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Hermitage Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: Chaliapin played the part of the Miller in this production. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 29 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Hermitage Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 30 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Hermitage Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: Chaliapin played the part of the Old Jew in this production. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 16 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: Chaliapin played the part of the Old Jew in this production. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 26 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 28 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 2 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 3 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 7 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 11 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 12 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 21 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 22 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 26 1897 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Solodovnikov Theatre

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.