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Rimsky-Korsakov and his world

Frolova-Walker, Marina, editor, Walker, Jonathan (Pianist), translator

2018

Overview

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. 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. 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. Rimsky-Korsakov and His World finally gives the composer center stage and due attention. 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. 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. 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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. / Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908 Criticism and interpretation. / Composers Russia Biography.
• ISBN: 0691182701, 9780691182704

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML410.R52 R53 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE