Presentation about composers. Made by a 2nd ESO student. English as a foreigh language. Across the curriculum (Music)

1. By: Guillem

2. DATE OF BIRTH
 He was born on the 1st of April of 1873.
 He was born in Séminov, Russia.

3. PERIOD OF COMPOSING
 He composed between 1879 and 1943.
 He went to the U.S.A in 1918 to become one of the
most important composers of the twentieth century

4. Instruments that he play
 He only played the piano because his music teacher
only wanted him to play the piano because he said:
“The piano is the only important thing in music;
composing or singing it’s not so important”.
 And because of this, Sérguei changed the teacher
because his passion was composing but he followed
playing the piano.

5. 5 Pieces of Sérguei
 Concert for piano and orchestra # 2
 Second Symphony
 The isle of the Dead
 Third symphony
 Symphonic dancing

6. Symphonic dancing
 This was his last song and it was one of the most
important and famous of the 20th century.

7. Other movements in his lifetime
 In 1917 the Russian Revolution appears and he has to
go to another country. And when he was in U.S.A the
URSS forbade his music.

8. Date of death
 He died on the 28th of March of 1943.

9. How did he die?
 He died because of a late diagnosed cancer.
 Concretely a melanoma.

10. WEBGRAPHY
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff
 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergu%C3%A9i_Rajm%
C3%A1ninov
 http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/rachma
ninov.htm
 http://www.wordreference.com/es/