Rachmaninov And His 《The Second Piano Concerto In C Minor》

Rachmaninov a great musician, pianist and conductor, is the romanticist in Russia.This thesis illustrates his life story,art career,and artistic style and characteristies, followed by anintroduction of one of his most outstanding works-the Second PianoConcerto in C Minor.This paper also presents comprehensively the background knowledge and detailed process of composition, and then provides a fine analysis of the overall structural arrangement, musical images and the contents movement by movement. At last,the intimate understandings that the author owned in the process of comprehending and performing the piano concerto are thoroughly interpreted.