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Sergei
Rachmaninoff composed his Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 in 190607. The
premiere was conducted by the composer himself in St. Petersburg on 8 February
1908.
At the time
his Symphony No. 2 in E minor was composed, Rachmaninoff had had two successful
seasons as the conductor of Imperial Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Rachmaninoff considered himself first and foremost a composer and felt that the
performance schedule was detracting from his time to compose. He then moved his
wife and infant daughter to Dresden, Germany to spend more time composing and
to also escape the political tumult that would put Russia on the path to
revolution. It was during this time that Rachmaninoff wrote his Second
Symphony.
In his 3rd
movement, Rachmaninoff uses a highly romantic theme primarily in the first
clarinet in an extremely Romantic-style melody, echoed by other clarinets and
the oboe. The movement reaches its emotional climax after an interlude of Oboe
and Clarinet passages followed by a reverie that is reminiscent of the
symphonys first movement. The theme from this movement was used for pop singer
Eric Carmen's 1976 song, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again".
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