Rimsky-Korsakov and His World
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A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844ā1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russiaāwhere many of his fifteen operas and various orchestral pieces are still in the standard repertoireāvery 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.The contributors are Lidia Ader, Leon Botstein, Emily Frey, Marina Frolova-Walker, Adalyat Issiyeva, Simon Morrison, Anna Nisnevich, Olga Panteleeva, and Yaroslav Timofeev.
The Bard Music FestivalBard Music Festival 2018
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World
Bard College
August 10ā12 and August 17ā19, 2018
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Permissions and Credits
- Correspondence
- Operas in Context
- Orientalism and The Golden Cockerel
- Colleagues and Disciples
- Afterword
- Index
- Notes on the Contributors