This month American Council of Piano Performers is happy to present to you a biography of Sergey Rachmaninoff.Sergey Rachmaninoff, in full Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninoff also spelled Rakhmaninov, or Rachmaninov   (born March 20 [April 1, New Style], 1873, Oneg, near Semyonovo, Russia—died March 28, 1943, Beverly Hills,California, U.S.), composer who was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism and a leading