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Free scores by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki) Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Internet Archive; Principles of Orchestration at Project Gutenberg – full, searchable text with music images, mp3 files, and MusicXML files
The Five (Russian: Могучая кучка, lit. 'Mighty Bunch'), also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin.
In 1892, Rimsky-Korsakov reorchestrated Sadko. [20] This was the last of his early works that he revised. [20] "With this revision I settled accounts with the past," he wrote in his autobiography. "In this way, not a single larger work of mine of the period antedating May Night remained unrevised" (italics Rimsky-Korsakov). [20]
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897. The Golden Cockerel (Russian: Золотой петушок, romanized: Zolotoy petushok listen ⓘ) is an opera in three acts, with a short prologue and an even shorter epilogue, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his last complete opera, before his death in 1908.
The Concerto for Trombone and Military Band by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was written in 1877. [1] The concerto consists of three movements: an Allegro Vivace first movement, an Andante Cantabile second movement, and an Allegro-Allegretto third movement in the style of a march. The second and third movements conclude with cadenzas.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his Fantasia on Serbian Themes, Op. 6, in 1867. Mily Balakirev conducted the first performed of this piece in May of that year. It is also known as the Serbian Fantasy. The Fantasy was actually Balakirev's idea for the young Rimsky-Korsakov to compose. [1]
Composed between 1894 and 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera on a short story, "Christmas Eve", from Nikolai Gogol's 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. [2] The story had been used as the basis for an opera at least three times previously, including for Tchaikovsky 's Vakula the Smith (1874). [ 3 ]