Sergei Rachmaninoff was a major composer in the twentieth century and also a great piano virtuoso. With his unique life experience and personality, Rachmaninoff¡¦s music reveals both deep nostalgia mood and Russian style. Variations on a Theme of Corelli, composed in 1931, was Rachmaninoff¡¦s final piano solo work. His writing style and compositional technique have reached maturity in this piece, which is one of the most representative works during his late period. The Corelli Variations were based on the melody from traditional Portugal dance La Folia. Rachmaninoff employed the virtuoso piano techniques and different musical elements to create diversity for each variation. To all pianists, this work definitely is a big challenge .
This lecture paper contains two main sections. The first section focuses on the life background and musical style of Rachmaninoff. The second section discusses Corelli variations, including its compositional background, formal structure and variation technique.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0203110-130531 |
| Date | 03 February 2010 |
| Creators | Jan, Ya-ting |
| Contributors | Wan-Jong Chou, Yea-Shiuh Lin, Ying, Kwang-I |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0203110-130531 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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