Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

Marina Frolova-Walker

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English

Princeton University Pres
19 November 2018

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: The Bard Music Festival

A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

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.

Edited by: Marina Frolova-Walker
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 43
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9780691182711
ISBN 10: 069118271X
Series: The Bard Music Festival
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 19 November 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Rimsky-Korsakov and His World

"""Rimskii-Korsakov and His World is to be welcomed not just for the many riches within it, but for its implicit call to continue the work of reconsidering the composer to whom it is so devoted.""---Philip Ross Bullock, Slavonic and East European Review"