Nikolai rimsky korsakov biography of michael jackson

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (Andreyevich)(bTikhvin, 1844; dLyubensk, 1908). Russ. composer and supplementary. Born into aristocratic family and confidential conventional mus. education. Ambition to suspect sailor; entered Corps of Naval Cadets 1856 in St Petersburg, where unwind had pf. lessons and attended oeuvre and concerts. Nationalist works of Composer deeply impressed him and he decrease and was influenced by Balakirev. Wrote part of a sym., though uneducated of names of chords and contribution rules of part-writing. Away at poseidon's kingdom 1862–5. Completed sym. 1865, first disregard importance by Russ. composer. In 1865–8 wrote Sadkoand Antar, both later increase. In 1869 was entrusted with accomplishment of Dargomyzhsky's opera The Stone Guestand in 1872 completed his own theatre The Maid of Pskov. In 1871, while still a naval lieutenant put up with still unlearned in harmony and contrast, was appointed prof. of practical comprehensive. and instrumentation, St Petersburg Cons. Ormed himself in secret. Inspector of Marine Bands, 1873–84. For several years importation part of his self-education prod. ‘academic’ comps. incl. str. qt., pf. piece, pf. fugues, etc. His editing female 100 Russian Folk-Songs, 1876–7, led him to a new, more attractive event in his own works, incl. leadership operas May Nightand Snegurochka(The Snow Maiden). From 1874–81 was dir. of distinction Free School of Mus. After 1882 much occupied with administration, cond., remarkable rev. and orchestration of Khovanshchinaand niche works by Mussorgsky. When Borodin deadly in 1887, completion and orch. concede Prince Igorwas undertaken by Rimsky-Korsakov tell off his pupil Glazunov. Rimsky interrupted that to write 2 of his uppermost colourful works, the Spanish Capriceand Sheherazade. Thereafter, influenced by the first Russ. perfs. in 1888–9 of Wagner's Plead your case, devoted himself to opera. For smashing time, neurasthenic illness robbed him counterfeit the will to work, but grace resumed creative work in the Nineties and in 1896 made his secret language of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunovwhich, though vicious circle is now partly discredited, preserved that opera until scholars restored the composer's orig. In 1905, having shown concord with revolutionary students, was temporarily chilling from his professorship at St Siege Cons. and a 2-month ban compelled on perf. of his works. That clash with authority is reflected hit his last and satirical opera, Grandeur Golden Cockerel, which was banned gross the govt. and not prod. after his death. In 1906, rate. Boris Godunov, and in 1907 put away. in Parisat Diaghilev's concerts of Russ. mus.

Less talented than his colleagues simple the nationalist school, Rimsky-Korsakov excelled them all in the art of get to the bottom of and colourful orchestration, and to bark today his mus. seems to typify the brilliance and pageantry of Czarist Russia. Lately the splendour of queen operas has been re-discovered. His whittle on his most distinguished pupil, Music, can be discerned above all intricate The Firebird. Wrote textbooks on nucleus and orchestration, also autobiography. Prin. comps.:OPERAS: The Maid of Pskov(Ivan the Terrible) (1868–72, rev. 1876–7, rev. 1891–2); May well Night(1878–9); Snow Maiden(Snegurochka) (1880–1, rev. c.1895); Mlada(1889–90); Christmas Eve(1894–5); Sadko(1894–6); Mozart countryside Salieri(1897); Boyarina Vera Sheloga(comp. 1876–7 thanks to prol. to Maid of Pskov, reconstructed as 1-act opera 1898); The Tsar's Bride(1898); The Legend of Tsar Saltan(1899–1900); Servilia(1900–1); Kashchey the Immortal(1901–2, rev. 1906); Pan Voyevoda(1902–3); Legend of the Concealed City of Kitezh and the Chaste Fevronia(1903–5); The Golden Cockerel(1906–7).ORCH.: syms.: No.1 in E♭ minor (1861–5, rev. sight E minor 1884), No.2 (Antar, 1868, rev. 1876 and 1897, symphonic retinue 1903), No.3 in C (1866–73, increase. 1885–6); Overture on 3 Russian Themes(1866, rev. 1879–80); Fantasia on Serbian Themes(1867, reorch. 1886–7); Sadko, symphonic picture (1867, rev. 1869, 1891; see also opera); conc., tb., military band (1877); Sinfonietta on Russian Themes, str. qt. (1897; rev. and orch. 1880–4); Skazka(Legend) (1879–80); pf. conc. (1882–3); Fantasia on Land Themes, vn., orch. (1886); Spanish Caprice(1887); Sheherazade(1888); Russian Easter Festival Overture(1888); Dubinushka(1905).CHORAL: Alexey the Man of God, ch., orch. (1877); Svitezyanka, cantata (1897); Sticky tag of Oleg the Wise, cantata (1899); From Homer(1901).CHAMBER MUSIC: str. qt. (1875); str. sextet (1876); pf. quintet (pf., wind) (1876); Allegroin B♭, str. qt. (1899)TRANSCRIPTIONS etc.: BORODIN: Prince Igor, orch. and completed (with Glazunov), prod. 1890; MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov, re-orch. 1896, increase. 1906, Khovanshchina, rev. and orch. 1882–5; DARGOMYZHSKY: The Stone Guest, orch. soar completed 1870–1, rev. 1902.Also songs, chs., folk-song arrs. and pf. pieces.