Composition retreat at Piazza di Spagna
· Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain in the United States. · file After a family holiday in Switzerland, Rachmaninoff stayed alone in a small apartment on Rome’s Piazza di Spagna and began work on The Bells. The year follows the immediately preceding 1912 resignation from the IRMS; no more precise date is supplied.
