Rachmaninoff Piano Pictures Etude Op.39

Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff(1873—1943),Russian composer, pianist and conductor in late 19th century and early 20th century. Etudes-Tableaux Op.39 was one of his most mature work of his composition. There are 9 pieces in the work which to be gifted with peerless passion and colourful tones. Each piece presents a pianistic problem, in the tradition of etude. In addition ,the most important is"tableaux".Each piece presents a scene or emotions. I've sdudied the background ,subject matter sound characteristic and harmony in this thesis, and what's more ,how to express the emotion fine and delicately,the piano technique , such as chord&broken chord ,interval&melody ,pedal,etc, was also discussed in the thesis .