Diary entries
November 7, 1911
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist and Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 2 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 5, 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that Apetian believed that this concert occurred on November 2, yet she claims that Rachmaninoff listed it in his notebook for November 5. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 9 1911 (Julian calendar)
Notes: No details. Satina speculates that the program given here was the same as given in Kharkiv on 5 November. Satina cites Apetian, p. 413, and a review in Russkaya Muzykal’naya Gazeta, but has noted elsewhere that Apetian’s date (of November 2) in Kharkiv was incorrect.
November 14 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The details for this concert are according to Andrianova-Ryadnova's memoirs of Rachmaninoff in Georgia.
November 18 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The details of this concert have been corroborated by Andrianova-Ryadnova's memoirs of Rachmaninoff in Georgia. Referring to ‘p. 660’ of the Russkaya Muzykal’naya Gazeta, Satina noted a possibility that Rachmaninoff also conducted his Second Symphony in this concert, however this was not indicated by Andrianova-Ryadnova, and would likely have made the concert overly long. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 22 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Apetian did not include this concert in her lists. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 10 1911 (Julian)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Sophia Satina states that this was the 5th Symphony Concert of the season.
December 5 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina describes how this program was ‘reconstructed from the newspaper Retch by Mrs E Somoff.’ Satina further indicates, though, that while she initially believed it may be incomplete she has ‘checked and corrected by using Alexander Siloti’s 10th Anniversary Book’. The concert was the 2nd concert of the non-subscription series of Siloti’s 9th Season of Concerts. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 10 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 5th Symphony Concert of the season. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 13 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the ‘2nd Chamber Music Extra Concert’ of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. From Satina’s notes, it is not clear if the order of works in this concert is correct, or indeed if the program is complete. She further notes that Preludes in the keys of G minor, G sharp minor, D flat major, and B minor were performed. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 15 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that the program is incomplete, further indicating that Rachmaninoff conducted Mussorgsky’s Hopak as an encore. The Concert was arranged by Mr Baklanoff ‘for benefit of the Society to help the needy Moscow students’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 18 1911 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this was the 6th Symphony Concert of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Satina also indicates that as an encore Rachmaninoff played Elegy, op. 3, no. 1, and ‘some Preludes from op. 23’. He accompanied Evgenija Zbrueva in ‘The Soldier’s Wife’, op. 8, no. 4 and ‘Spring Waters’, op. 14, no. 11.
January 7 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina indicates that this was the 7th Symphony Concert of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. It is not clear if only the Prelude of Glazunov’s work was played, nor which concerto by Davidov was performed. Satina also notes that the work by Mussorgsky was played in place of the advertised Capriccio Espagnole of Rimsky Korsakov. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 14 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes that this was the 8th Symphony Concert of the season of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 28 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this was the 9th concert in the season of Siloti’s concerts. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 2 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this 1.30pm was one of Kerzin’s concerts for the Society for the Lovers of Russian Music. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 13 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
February 15 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
February 17 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
February 20 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
February 22 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
February 23 1912 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
March 12 1912
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.