
The sonata is in three interrelated movements: Its premiere took place in Kursk on 18 October 1913 (5 October in the Julian calendar). When the girls were well enough, Rachmaninoff traveled with his family back to his Ivanovka country estate, where he finished the second piano sonata. Instead, Rachmaninoff moved his family on to Berlin in order to consult with doctors. However, because both of his daughters contracted typhoid fever, he was unable to finish the composition in Rome. It was during this time in Rome that Rachmaninoff started working on his second piano sonata. Three years after his third piano concerto was finished, Rachmaninoff moved with his family to a house in Rome that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had used. 36, is a piano sonata in B-flat minor composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1913, who revised it in 1931, with the note, "The new version, revised and reduced by author."

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