Who was Rachmaninoff's favorite composer?
Who was Rachmaninoff's favorite composer? He loved to play works by Liszt, Schubert, and Bach. Another favorite composer of Rachmaninoff's? Frédéric Chopin. In fact, there are more extant recordings of Rachmaninoff playing the works of Chopin than any other composer.
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.
Who was Chopin in love with?
In 1838, George Sand (the pen name of Aurore Dupin Dudevant) and Frédéric Chopin began a love affair that lasted nine years.
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.