Alexander Gretchaninov - Plainte, Op. 3 No. 1 (audio + sheet music)

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (25 October [O.S. 13 October] 1864, Kaluga – 3 January 1956, New York City) was a Russian Romantic composer. Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late, because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm. Gretchaninov himself related that he did not see a piano until he was 14 and began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1881 against his father’s wishes and without his knowledge. His main teachers there were Sergei Taneye