Music and Time Annotation << Back Russian Composers Playing Piano: The Rare Recordes of 1890–1895s Review Yu. Monastyrshyna In the paper the author analyzes the overall style of performance art Nouveau era on the basis of the records done in the late XIX century. This is important in the context of the development of history of performing and relations composer and performer. These entries are interest, as they recorded a bygone era of performance, when the author’s text was only basis for a spectacular show of the pianist, and for the listener, it was important not playing, but as that explain the presence among the universally recognized masterpieces of a large number of mediocre music, which is now forgotten, and different versions of the same work (two recordings of Chopin’s Mazurka in version Pabst very different timing), and also changes in the original text. Keywords: Yu. Block, S. Taneev. P. Pabst, S. Rakhmaninov, piano music Contacts: E-mail: monastyrshina2009@yandex.ru Pp. 08-11.