Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony autograph MS returned to Russia for preparation the World first scholarly edition in Rachmaninoff Complete Works

In the midst of the Cold War against Russian culture, renowned American billionaire, art collector and philanthropist Robert Owen Lehman Jr. donated Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony autograph MS digital copy to Russian Music Publishing for preparation of the World first scholarly edition in Rachmaninoff Complete Works

How Rachmaninoff’s manuscript became a reason for cooperation between Russia and US.

In the midst of the Cold War against Russian culture, renowned American billionaire, art collector and philanthropist Robert Owen Lehman Jr. donated Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony autograph MS digital copy to Russian Music Publishing for preparation of the World first scholarly edition in the Critical Edition of the Complete Works.

Further information on the progress of the scholarly and publishing preparation of the RCW volume III/8 with Second Symphony will be published in news blocks on RMP website.

Second Symphony in E minor op. 27 (SR 54), Finale, Autograph MS, p. 62-63
(The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, call nr. R119.S988).
Format: 35 × 26 cm. Foto: Sotheby’s, booklet of Lot no. 208 (2014), p. 8-9