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    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was...
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    IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as...
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    The following is a partial list of compositions by the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908). The Maid of Pskov (Псковитянка = Pskovitjanka) (sometimes...
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    The Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum-Apartment (Russian: Музей-квартира Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) is a branch of the St. Petersburg State Museum...
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  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a Russian composer. Rimsky-Korsakov may also refer to: Rimsky-Korsakov (film), a 1952 Soviet film by Gennadi Kazansky...
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    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. It was first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890. Alexander Borodin Vladimir Stasov Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov...
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    for symphony orchestra in four movements by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He wrote the piece in 1868 but revised it in 1875 and 1891. He...
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    to 1779. Rimsky-Korsakov was born on 29 June 1754 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. He was a son of Nikolai Semyonovich Rimsky-Korsakov and brother...
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    music: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin. They lived in Saint Petersburg and collaborated...
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    an opera-ballet in four acts, composed between 1889 and 1890 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, to a libretto by Viktor Krylov that was originally employed for...
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    with a wavy line in blue pencil." — Vladimir Stasov, letter to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1888 Note: This section lists performance data for the Saint Petersburg...
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    others were Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. For several years, Balakirev was the only professional musician...
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  • 23, 1940) was a musicologist and son of the Russian composers Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova. He was encouraged in musical pursuits...
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  • starring Grigori Belov, Nikolai Cherkasov and Aleksandr Borisov. The film portrays the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The film was shot...
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    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 1 (originally in E♭ minor), between 1861 and 1865 under the guidance of Mily Balakirev...
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    events of 1881; additional sources of inspiration were the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the bullfights Repin had witnessed during a trip to Western...
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  • Bumblebee" (Russian: Полёт шмеля) is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in...
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    composer. On his resignation in 1867, he was succeeded by Nikolai Zaremba. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was appointed as a professor in 1871, and the conservatory...
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    geographer. He was an elder brother of composer and conductor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky-Korsakov was born in 1822 into a family of Russian nobility and...
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    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Nikolai Tcherepnin...
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    of Five": Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and César Cui. More western oriented were Anton Rubinstein and...
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    The Rimsky-Korsakov monument (Russian: Памятник Римскому-Корсакову) is a bronze statue of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), the Russian composer, teacher...
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    Capriccio Espagnol (category Suites by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    based on Spanish folk melodies, composed by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1887. It received its premiere on 31 October 1887, in St. Petersburg...
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  • from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's eponymous opera, which was based on a Russian bylina (былина 'epic tale') with the same name. The music is Rimsky-Korsakov's...
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    Igor Stravinsky (category Pupils of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    While studying law at the University of Saint Petersburg, he met Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and studied music under him until the latter's death in 1908. Stravinsky...
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    opera in four acts with a prologue (a total of seven scenes) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on the...
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    Night on Bald Mountain (category Adaptations of works by Nikolai Gogol)
    he completed on that very night, 23 June 1867. Together with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko (1867), it is one of the first tone poems by a Russian composer...
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    orchestral interlude Flight of the Bumblebee was composed (c. 1900) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It represents the turning of Prince Guidon into a bumblebee so...
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  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade (introducing theme for Gargamel) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov...
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    Sadko (opera) (category Operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir Stasov, and others. Rimsky-Korsakov...
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