♦♦ RACHMANINOFF: MUSICAL MOMENT No. 2 ♦♦
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Six moments musicaux, Op. 16 (French for "Six Musical Moments"; Russian: Шесть музыкальных моментов) in 1896. Musical moment No. 2 (Allegretto, E♭ minor) can be characterized as a "glittering showpiece" and represents a typical nineteenth-century étude, similar in style to Frédéric Chopin's Études. It is, throughout, a relentless torrent of descending half steps and a cascading left hand figure reminiscent of Chopin's Revolutionary Étude.
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