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Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov [a] [b] (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) [c] was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. [d] He was a master of orchestration.
The film depicts the final two decades of the life of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Exploring his creative and pedagogical philosophy, the narrative highlights key moments such as his lectures at the school of composers he founded, intense debates about the "anti-popular" nature of Ramensky's music (a character based on Igor Stravinsky), struggles against the tyranny of Imperial ...
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 1 (originally in E ♭ minor), between 1861 and 1865 under the guidance of Mily Balakirev. Balakirev also premiered the work at a concert of the Free Music School in December 1865. Rimsky-Korsakov revised the work in 1884.
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Rimsky-Korsakov was not able to meet Berlioz due to the French composer's ill health. [15] He was, however, able to hear Berlioz conduct his Symphonie fantastique on December 7, 1867, and Harold en Italie at Berlioz's final concert on February 8, 1868. [15] Rimsky-Korsakov began work on Antar on January 21, between these two concerts. [15]
Flight of the Bumblebee" (Russian: Полёт шмеля) is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. This perpetuum mobile is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee. Despite the piece's ...
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]
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