"What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?"

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Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.

— Sergei Rachmaninoff