Symphony concert in Chemnitz: The last romantics

He was considered a child prodigy, although he initially failed the entrance exam at the Petersburg Conservatory. As successful as his first works as a composer were, the critics panned his first piano concerto. Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873 to 1943) fell into depression and suffered a creative crisis from which he was only able to free himself with difficulty and with the help of his doctor Nikolai Dahl. He should i…