Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Suite No. 1 (or Fantaisie-Tableaux for two pianos) Op. 5 is a composition for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Composed in 1893 this suite illustrates four extracts of poems written by Mikhail Lermontov Lord Byron Fyodor Tyutchev and Aleksey Khomyakov.This work was first performed on November 30 1893 by Rachmaninoff and Pavel Pabst in Moscow and is dedicated to Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff composed a second suite in 1901.The four movements are:I. Barcarolle. Allegretto in G minor.II.