First Sunday Music - Rimsky-Korsakov

Rimsky-Korsakov

[HoosierHawk]

Nicholay Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, (1844-1908), was a Russian composer and musical theorist, one of the greatest composers of the Russian nationalist school, and a great master of orchestration.

Rimsky-Korsakov was born on March 18, 1844, in Tikhvin, near Novgorod. He studied piano as a child. In 1856 he was enrolled at the Naval Academy at Saint Petersburg but continued his musical studies. In 1861 Rimsky-Korsakov became an associate of the Russian composer Mily Balakirev, the dominant figure of a group of young, nationally conscious Russian composers including Aleksandr Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, and César Cui. Together with Rimsky-Korsakov this group of composers became known as The Five.

After his retirement from active service in the navy in 1873, Rimsky-Korsakov was made inspector of naval bands. The knowledge that he gained in this capacity was subsequently employed to advantage in the scoring of his compositions. From 1871 to his death he was professor of practical composition and instrumentation at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (now the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory), and from 1886 to 1890 he conducted the Russian Symphony concerts in St. Petersburg. He also completed Borodin's unfinished opera Prince Igor in 1889 and reorchestrated Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov in 1896 after the deaths of the composers. Rimsky-Korsakov himself died on June 21, 1908, in St. Petersburg.

Rimsky-Korsakov is remembered today more for the freshness and brilliance of his instrumentation than for the originality of his musical ideas. His influence as an orchestrator was exercised directly on his pupils, notably the Russian composers Igor Stravinsky and Aleksandr Glazunov, and indirectly through his treatise, The Foundations of Instrumentation, published posthumously in 1913.

Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherezade

Borodin - Polovtsian Dances

Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[HoosierHawk]

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[HoosierHawk]

Sheherazade.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Good morning, HoosierHawk! Thank you...!

[mylife]

Good Job Hawk!

I’ll be back in a bit to enjoy your work

[HoosierHawk]

Enjoy.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Trust me...I will! :)

[mylife]

Oh I really like Bordin~! I didnt see that there!

[mylife]

The 2nd Borodin piece is on of my faves

[mylife]

May I suggest Antone Dvorak for Aug?

[mylife]

4th Borodin # is awesome!

[HoosierHawk]

Sure. What have you in mind?

[mylife]

Oh, I like them all.

I’m kinda partial to the “humoresques”

[mylife]

Have you noticed? The Russian, or soviet block composers are some of the finest the world has seen.

Sweeping and all encompassing in their emotion.

Admirable adversarys.

[HoosierHawk]

The Russians and eastern European countries have produced a fair share of great composers, many of whom wrote music grounded in folklore and songs.

A very rich tradition.

[mylife]

“Many of whom wrote music grounded in folklore and songs.

A very rich tradition.”>

Yup.

Have I told you I’m enjoying this Borodin? :0)

Korsakov is next on the playlist. Thanks!

[mylife]

I wish we could move this thread out of Chat for more exposure.

We have “daily threads” on the frontpage.
Why not a “monthly thead?”

FR is a big ol house isnt it?

[HoosierHawk]

I was posting on “News”, but since it was once moved to “Chat”, I just kept it here.

[mylife]

ah well

I suppose it is chat. still, I wish it could get wider exposure.

You should consider linking to the canteens chapel thread.

I have posted a crosslink there.

I find Classical to be very spiritual and inline with Chapel

[mylife]

This Korsakov is very nice.

The opening reminds me of Vaughn Williams “The Lark Ascending”

[Publius]

Much more than Scheherazade.

Check out his Symphony #1 in E minor, written on board ship when he was a naval cadet in training.