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Sadko (Russian: Садко) was a legendary hero of a Russian bylina (a traditional East Slavic oral narrative poem). A merchant and gusli musician from Novgorod, he is transported to the realm of the Sea Tsar. There, he is to provide music to accompany the dance at the marriage of the Sea Tsar's daughter.
Éditions Russes de Musique was a music publishing company operating in Germany, Russia, France, the UK and the US. [1] It was founded in 1909 by Serge Koussevitzky and his second wife Natalia and focused on new Russian music. [2] [3] In 1914 Koussevitzky purchased the Moscow-based publishing firm Gutheil from Carl Gutheil, merging it into ...
The Kitchen in Paris (Кухня в Париже; Kukhnya v Parizhe) is a 2014 Russian comedy, a first feature film directed by Dmitriy Dyachenko of the television channel by STS and company by Yellow, Black and White-Group.
The first Paris music hall built specially for that purpose was the Folies-Bergere (1869); it was followed by the Moulin Rouge (1889), the Alhambra (1866), the first to be called a music hall, and the Olympia (1893). The Printania (1903) was a music-garden, open only in summer, with a theater, restaurant, circus, and horse-racing.
The Russian Ambassador Alexander Kurakin is credited with bringing service à la russe to France in 1810 at a meal in Clichy on the outskirts of Paris. [4] It eventually caught on in England, becoming the norm by the 1870s and 1880s, though in France there was considerable resistance and service à la française lingered on until the 1890s and ...
He was the teacher of some of the best Russian pianists, notably Alexander Scriabin, Nikolai Medtner, Josef Lhévinne and Rosina Bessie (later Lhévinne). He also taught the noted teacher and theorist Madame Maria Levinskaya, and Marthe Servine, a French-American composer and pianist.See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Vasily Safonov.
Mark Osipovich Reizen (Russian: Марк Осипович Рейзен, 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1895 – 25 November 1992) was a leading Soviet opera bass singer and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1937).
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.