November 27 1885 (Julian calendar)

Keldysh notes (p. 34) that 'already in his first year of study at the conservatory, on November 27, 1885, he played at a student evening'. It is not indicated from which book of the Well-Tempered Klavier the prelude was taken. Without supplying a precise date, he further notes that in 1886 Rachmaninoff performed Henselt's D major Etude. Potentially also attributable to 1886, Keldysh (p. 28) notes a performance by Rachmaninoff of Bach's English Suite in A minor at the Conservatory in the presence of A. Rubinstein, highlighting an apparent inaccuracy of date in Bertensson and Leyda.