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The musical child of Russia's golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last great romantics. Scorned by the musical establishment until very recently, his music received hostile reviews from critics and other composers. Conversely, it never failed to find widespread popular acclaim. Michael Scott's Rachmaninoff investigates the composer's intense and often melodramatic life, following him from imperial Russia to his years of exile as a wandering virtuoso and his death in Beverly Hills during the Second World War, worn out by his punishing schedule.

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Michael Scott founded the London Opera Society, which gave concert performances of bel canto operas with many great singers, including Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne and Boris Christoff. It also introduced names such as Montserrat Caballé, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi and Plácido Domingo. He has written a two-volume survey, 'Record of Singing', and is also the author of 'The Great Caruso' and 'Maria Meneghini Callas’.

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