High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russian Rhapsody is a piece for two pianos in E minor composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1891, when he was 18. It is more accurately described as a set of variations on a theme, rather than a true rhapsody. It was premiered on October 29, 1891, and performance takes approximately nine minutes. While still a student at Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninoff wrote to Natalia Skalon on January 22 1891 mentioning that he had begun work on a piece for two pianos that he wanted to play with Alexander "Sasha" Siloti. Although, he dated the manuscript January 12–15, 1891, implying that he had the composition in his head at the time of the letter, and only recorded the days he notated it on paper. Despite his stated intentions, he began rehearsing with Leonid Maximof, who had been a fellow student of Nikolai Zverev and pupil of Siloti, to play at a student concert at the Conservatory on March 8, 1891. However, Zverev, still upset over Rachmaninoff's request for a separate composing room, did not allow them to play together, so at the concert Rachmaninof ended up conducting his choral work Deus Meus (1890) instead.

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