My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

 

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.
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Quoted in Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 381.
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Said on February 27, 1943, during his last illness, after having said that he would never be able to play again.

 

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