What disability did Rachmaninoff have?
What disability did Rachmaninoff have? This is what Ramachandran and Aronson in 2006 stated about Rachmaninoff's hands: The size of Rachmaninoff's hands may have been a manifestation of Marfan's syndrome, their size and slenderness typical of arachnodactyly.
Did Beethoven have a wife?
Ludwig van Beethoven never married, but he was in love several times, usually with women who were married or otherwise out of reach. His dedication to his work and his increasing deafness may have played a role in why he was never truly happy in love or successful at a long-term relationship.
Why was Rachmaninoff exiled?
Increasingly unhappy with the political turmoil in Russia and in need of seclusion from his lively social life to be able to compose, Rachmaninoff with his family left Moscow for Dresden, Germany, in November 1906.