Youth Symphony (Rachmaninoff)
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The Youth Symphony in D minor is the first movement
of a symphony
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff
, the score of which is dated September 28, 1891. It is the only movement of the work that has survived.
The score was published posthumously by Muzgiz in 1947.
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...
of a symphony
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
, the score of which is dated September 28, 1891. It is the only movement of the work that has survived.
The score was published posthumously by Muzgiz in 1947.