# Talk:Miscellaneous solo piano compositions (Rachmaninoff)

A clear article that does a nice job of bringing together a disparate set of works. However, I think a few expansions are necessary:

The lead needs to summarize the article in more depth per WP:LEAD and the sentences need to have parallel structure - they are grammatically incorrect right now.
In the autumn of 1885, Rachmaninoff, at the age of 12, entered the home of Nikolai Zverev to receive private piano instruction, and while residing with his teacher, he was subject to his training regimen and rigorous practice schedule. - The pronouns start to become confusing here.
No. 3 in C minor took more than a month to compose, dated from December 3 to January 12, and is highly Robert Schumann-esque, with a chordal texture spread over the entire keyboard. - break into two sentences
Do we know why he had to write the fugue/canon?
More musical information on the Canon in D, the Prelude in F, the Morceau de Fantaisie, and the Fughetta would greatly enhance the article, as the reader doesn't learn much about them.
I am placing this article on hold for a week so that the editors can address these issues. I look forward to re-reviewing it. Awadewit | talk 02:13, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

The lead is giving me trouble, because no collective statements have been made about this group as a whole. I'm not sure what else to say for it. In my references nothing more is said about the Prelude in F, and since IMSLP is shut down I can't have a look at the score, if it would be up there. But from what I have, the other pieces have more information now. Thanks for taking a look and editing some yourself, I appreciate it. ALTON .ıl 05:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The lead doesn't necessary have to be a comprehensive statement about all of the pieces, but perhaps it could give a better idea of just what the pieces are by naming some of their styles and titles, for example? Awadewit | talk 09:50, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The slower andante is a gentle section, influenced by Pyotr Tchaikovsky - which of the two andante sections? Awadewit | talk 09:50, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I did some more copy editing - feel free to change any of it back. Awadewit | talk 09:50, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I've added a mention about some pieces. The editing you've done was nothing but an improvement. ALTON .ıl 00:18, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Much better - passing now. Awadewit | talk 01:47, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Awadewit. What a quality article you've made it. ALTON .ıl 01:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

The first paragraph of the article states incorrectly that the Oriental Sketch was written late in Rachmaninoff's life. In fact, Rachmaninoff himself gave the first public performance, at Juilliard, in November, 1931. The piece was written long before that, in 1917. See for example http://imslp.org/wiki/Oriental_Sketch_%28Rachmaninoff,_Sergei%29. 
DonaldMWright (talk) 09:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)