Senar is a villa built in
Switzerland by the Russian composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff. He purchased the plot of land near Hertenstein near
Lake Lucerne in 1932. The name of the estate originated from the names of Rachmaninoff and his wife: Sergei and Natalia, by combining the first two letters of each given name and the first of their surname. The villa was designed to remind Rachmaninoff about the estate of
Ivanovka the family had in southern Russia before the
October Revolution and their migration to the West. A park and a magnificent rose garden were layed at Senar. The Rachmaninoffs spent every summer at Senar until their final migration to the United States in 1939 at the outbreak of the
World War II. Two of Rachmaninoff's major compositions were written in Senar:
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini completed in 1934 and the
Third symphony completed in 1936. The villa hosted famous Russian immigrants, including
Ivan Bunin and
Vladimir Horowitz.
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