17 JEAN-BAPTISTE FONLUPT What are his other sources of inspiration ? Poetry and literature above all: Aleksandr Pushkin, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare… of whom he always kept a volume within reach. But also painting — notably Ilya Répine, Isaac Levitan and Arnold Böcklin, two of whose canvases inspired two of Rachmaninoff’s works: his symphonic poem Остров мёртвых (The Isle of the Dead), and Prelude no.10 in B minor, Op.32, his favourite, was inspired by the painting Die Heimkehr (The Return).
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