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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and The Five (category Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, sought to produce a specifically Russian kind of art music, rather...
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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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    The Snow Maiden (category Operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    Snegurochka–vesennyaya skazka) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer...
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    and the group had long since dispersed; of its members, only Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov remained fully active as a composer. Now a professor of musical...
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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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  • 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 (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 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Nikolai Tcherepnin...
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    well as the wife of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. She was also the mother of Russian musicologist Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov. Born Nadezhda Nikolayevna...
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    Igor Stravinsky (category Pupils of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    University of Saint Petersburg, he met Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and studied under him until Rimsky-Korsakov's death in 1908. Stravinsky met the impresario...
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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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    The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (category Operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    gráde Kítezhe i déve Fevrónii listen) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on a...
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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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    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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    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 30, between 1882 and 1883. It was first performed in March 1884 at one of Mily...
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  • Kashchey the Deathless (category Operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    as Kashchey the Immortal) is a one-act opera in three scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, and is based on a Russian...
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  • diplomat Nikolai Pozdneev (1930–1978), Russian painter Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian geographer and explorer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)...
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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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  • 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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    Alexander Glazunov (category Pupils of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    recognized Glazunov's talent and brought his work to the attention of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. "Casually Balakirev once brought me the composition of a fourteen-...
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    libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Composed between 1894 and 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera on a short story, "Christmas Eve", from Nikolai Gogol's...
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    Mozart and Salieri (opera) (category Operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
    Motsart i Salyeri listen) is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1897 to a Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from...
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