A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally.
Her books include Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin and Stalin\'s Music Prize..
The Bard Music Festival Bard Music Festival 2018Rimsky-Korsakov and His World Bard College August 10-12 and August 17-19, 2018About the Author: Marina Frolova-Walker is professor of music history at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Clare College.
The contributors are Lidia Ader, Leon Botstein, Emily Frey, Marina Frolova-Walker, Adalyat Issiyeva, Simon Morrison, Anna Nisnevich, Olga Panteleeva, and Yaroslav Timofeev.
Other essays look at more general aspects of Rimsky-Korsakov\'s work and examine his far-reaching legacy as a professor of composition and orchestration, including his impact on his most famous pupil Igor Stravinsky.
The discussion of these operas is accompanied and enriched by the composer\'s letters to Nadezhda Zabela, the distinguished soprano for whom he wrote several leading roles.
In this collection, Rimsky-Korsakov\'s major operas, The Snow Maiden, Mozart and Salieri, and The Golden Cockerel, receive multifaceted exploration and are carefully contextualized within the wider Russian culture of the era.
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World finally gives the composer center stage and due attention.
In Western writings, he appears mainly in the context of the Mighty Handful, a group of five Russian composers to which he belonged at the outset of his career.
While he remains well-known in Russia--where many of his fifteen operas and various orchestral pieces are still in the standard repertoire--very little of his work is performed in the West today beyond Scheherezade and arrangements of The Flight of the Bumblebee.
A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally
