Musicology Annotation << Back Rachmaninoff and Medtner: the great friendship Yelena B. Dolinskaya The article considers the history of friendship and long-term correspondence of two geniuses of Russian music – Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner. The destinies of the musicians were different, the fi rst was destined to conquer the world, the second – to wander in search of shelter after the loss of the Motherland. The great friendship of the two musicians remained embodied in a grandiose epistolary heritage, which complemented the succession of examples of communication between composers, a rare in depth of creative and human contacts. In the history of Russian music this is not an isolated example, let us recall the correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Taneev, Prokofi ev and Myaskovsky. For domestic historiography, these are invaluable documentary evidence. Let us dwell in detail on one of the episodes of the correspondence between Rachmaninoff and Medtner, showing how the mutually interested epistolary reviews were born at the time of the concerts: The Second concert of Nikolai Medtner and The Fourth concerto of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Keywords: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner, correspondence, fi rst half of the 20th century, piano, Russian Abroad. Contacts: E-mail: se.dolinskiy@gmail.com Pp. 16-22.