“Music is enough for a lifetime, but one life is not enough for music”. This is a quote from the great and talented composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. If you look up what the quote means you can get many different answers, but many I disagree with. I think the quote means something more to Rachmaninoff. I think the quote means that during his lifetime Rachmaninoff might have been satisfied with the music he created, but during his lifetime he didn't create as much music as he could have. This shows how talented Rachmaninoff is in composing such musical masterpieces. From his early childhood in Russia to worldwide success, he has always had that drive to write music. Sergei Rachmaninoff was born on April 1, 1873 in one of the oldest cities in Russia, Novgorod. His father was an army officer and his mother was born to a very rich family. The Rachmaninoffs were part of an ancient aristocracy where the attitude was still there but the money was not. His family was very dysfunctional. His father was a heavy alcoholic, gambled regularly and eventually lost all of his wife's money. In 1882 Sergei's father finally abandoned the family. Sergei was nine years old. Young Sergei was often considered a problem child and was very arrogant. However, he had an out-of-this-world talent. At the age of nine Rachmaninoff was enrolled in the College of Music in St. Petersburg. Because Rachmaninoff was arrogant, he never bothered to study. Rachmaninoff's cousin Alexander Siloti helped solve this problem and suggested that Rachmaninoff move to Moscow and study with the strict teacher Nikolai Zverev, and in 1885 Rachmaninoff made the trip to Moscow to be with Zverev, which he did for three years . In 1888 Rachm......middle paper......sent to college at a young age, during the Russian Revolution he always tried to compose music, which was what he loved to do. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but music is not enough for a lifetime.” When Rachmaninoff said this, he meant it. I'm sure he was satisfied with what he had created in his life, but there was so much more he had to give us. Works Cited“He also began studio work, producing recordings that eighty years later are considered a handful of the most valuable performances, by him and others, ever recorded on record” quote from Boosey & Hawkes. http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2861&ttitle=biography&ttype=biography http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sergey-rachmaninov-mn0000505265 http://imslp. org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_No.2,_Op.18_(Rachmaninoff,_Sergei) http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96apr/rachmaninoff.html