The Belyayev circle was a society of Russian musicians who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 1885 and 1908, and whose members included Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, Vladimir Staso
Portrait of Mitrofan Belyayev by Ilya Repin
Portrait of Alexander Glazunov by Ilya Repin, 1887
Dmitri Shostakovich, 1925
The Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13, is a four-movement composition for orchestra written from January to October 1895 by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. He composed it at his Ivanovka est
The failure of Symphony No. 1 was probably related to a subsequent psychological collapse that Rachmaninoff suffered a few months later; it haunted him until his death in 1943.
The Moscow Conservatory, where Rachmaninoff graduated with honors in the spring of 1891.
César Cui led the critical charge against the symphony.