Rimsky-Korsakov and his world
by Frolova-Walker, Marina Walker, Jonathan
"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…
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- Full title :Rimsky-Korsakov and his world / edited by Marina Frolova-Walker.
Summary
"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. The contributors are Lidia Ader, Leon Botstein, Emily Frey, Marina Frolova-Walker, Adalyat Issiyeva, Simon Morrison, Anna Nisnevich, Olga Panteleeva, and Yaroslav Timofeev."--Résumé du site web de l'éditeur.
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- Publication Date:[2018].
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:[2018].
Notes
"In this contex, The Bard Music Festival 'Rimsky-Korsakov and His World,' held in the summer of 2018, is a unique and exciting event that will reveal much of the composer's music that is still unknown to the West. This volume is published in assocation with the festival..."--Page viii.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 367 pages : : illustrations, musique ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0691182701, 9780691182704, 069118271X, 9780691182711
- oclc:on1090971410
- LC Classification:ML410.R52
- Dewey Decimal:780.92
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