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Nadezhda Nikolayevna Rimskaya-Korsakova. Nadezhda Nikolayevna Rimskaya-Korsakova (Russian: Надежда Николаевна Римская-Корсакова, IPA: [nɐˈdʲeʐdə nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvnə ˈrʲimskəjə ˈkorsəkəvə] ⓘ; née Purgold; October 19 [O.S. October 31] 1848 – May 24, 1919) was a Russian pianist and composer as well as the wife of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Crises in the Rimsky-Korsakov household may have been a factor—the serious illnesses of his wife and one of his sons from diphtheria in 1890, the deaths of his mother and youngest child, as well as the onset of the prolonged, ultimately fatal illness of his second youngest child.
The Tsar's Bride (Russian: Царская невеста, romanized: Tsarskaya nevesta listen ⓘ) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer's tenth opera. The libretto, by Ilia Tyumenev, is based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey.
Ivan Nikolajevich Rimsky-Korsakov, né Korsav (29 June 1754 – 31 July 1831 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian courtier and lover of Catherine the Great from 1778 to 1779. Early life [ edit ]
Composers such as Glazunov, Lyadov, Stravinsky, Taneyev, Scriabin, and Rachmaninov gave premières of their own works, and the singers Fyodor Shalyapin, Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel and Yevgeniya Mravina performed, accompanied by Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. A Becker piano, acquired by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1902, now stands in the drawing room as it did then.
He was the common ancestor of the Korsakov, Rymsky-Korsakov and Miloslavsky families. [1] The Miloslavsky family had mostly been regular boyar scions, before they married into the House of Romanov. Miloslaw's grandson, Terenty Fyodorovich Korsakov-Miloslavsky, had five sons: Daniel nicknamed Kozel, Ilya, Fyodor, Vladimir and Andrey (died ...
Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехеразада, romanized: Shekherazada, IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights).
Rimsky-Korsakov perceived it as 'an autumn tale' that is juxtaposed to his previous 'spring tale', The Snow Maiden. [5] A similar fairy tale was also used by Igor Stravinsky (Rimsky-Korsakov's pupil) and Michel Fokine to create their iconic ballet, The Firebird. The opera was composed during 1901–1902 and the work was completed in 1902. [6]