Written when the composer was only a teenager, this first professional composition premiered in Moscow in March 1892, with the composer as soloist and Vasily Safonov conducting. The work is divided into three movements:
Vivace
Andante cantabile
Allegro scherzando
As was his wont, Rachmaninoff ma...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 was written by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Sergei Rachmaninoff released Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 on Thu Mar 17 1892.
In a letter to Natalia Skalon dated March 1891, the composer wrote:
I am now composing a piano concerto. Two movements are already written; the last movement is not written, but is composed; I shall probably finish the whole concerto by the summer, and then in the summer orchestrate it