Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Who is this fine man?
 Russian composer
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Capriccio Espagnol

Russian Easter Festival
Overture

The Flight of the Bumblebees
 Member of “The Five”

An "authentically Russian”
movement

“To create music that is closer
to the native soil, than the
classic academy”
Early Life
 March 18, 1844 – June 21,
1908
 Born in Tikhvin

100 miles east of Saint
Petersburg
 Aristocratic family
 Started playing the piano
at age 6
 Started composing at age
10
 Pursued a naval career
Life Continued
 Private lessons with Mily
Balakirev
 Untrained musician;
sought assistance from
Tchaikovsky

Advised him to study

Homeschooled himself
 Looked down upon by
fellow nationalists
 110 works
His Works
 Believed in developing a
nationalistic style of classical
music


Employed Russian folk song
and lore
Harmonic, melodic, and
rhythmic elements

Orientalism
 Avoided traditional Western
compositional methods

Fantasia on Serbian Themes
 Ideas shifted after he began
his homeschooling


Appreciated and implemented
non-Russian techniques
Scheherazade
Work Cited
 "Basic Repertoire List - Rimsky-Korsakoff (Rimsky-Korsakov)."
Classical Net. Web. 07 Nov. 2010.
<http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/rimsky-korsakov.php>.
 "Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - Classical Archives." Listen to Classical
Music on Classical Archives: Home. Web. 06 Nov. 2010.
http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/3231.html#tvf=tracks&
tv=about
 "The Creative Legacy of N. Rimsky-Korsakov." Право и Интернет.
Law & Internet Research (Russia). Информационное право, право
телекоммуникаций, регулирование Интернета,
информационных технологий и электронной коммерции,
интеллектуальная собственность, художественная галерея.
Cyberspase Law, Computer. Web. 07 Nov. 2010.
<http://www.russianlaw.net/RK/creative.htm>.