Rimsky-Korsakov and His World (eBook)

Marina Frolova-Walker (Herausgeber)

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2018
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18551-4 (ISBN)

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A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring 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.The Bard Music FestivalBard Music Festival 2018Rimsky-Korsakov and His WorldBard CollegeAugust 10-12 and August 17-19, 2018

Autor

Marina Frolova-Walker is professor of music history at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Clare College. Her books include Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin and Stalin’s Music Prize.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Alexander Herzen • Alexander Ostrovsky • Alexander Scriabin • Alexander Serov • Alexei Ratmansky • A Life for the Tsar • Anton Rubinstein • Apotheosis • Asian territories • autocracy • Ballet • Boris Asafyev • Boris Godunov • Boris Godunov (opera) • Boyar • Career • Censorship • Classicism • classicist aesthetics • colonial conquest • Composer • Composition • compositional school • Conservatory system • contemporaneity • Criticism • declamation • Don Giovanni • Enchantment • experiential connection • Felix Mendelssohn • Franz Liszt • Haydn and Mozart • historical musicology • Humane Politics • Ideology • Igor Stravinsky • individual feeling • Intelligentsia • italian opera • Ivan Bilibin • Kamarinskaya • Khovanshchina • Kitezh • lecturer • Leo Tolstoy • Libretto • Literature • Ludwig van Beethoven • lyricism • Maurice Ravel • metaphysical excess • Mighty Handful • Mikhail Vrubel • Mily Balakirev • Modernity • Modest Musorgsky • Modest Mussorgsky • Mozart • Mozart and Salieri • Mozart and Salieri (opera) • Mozart and Salieri (play) • Muse • musical composition • Musical Life • Music History • musician • musicology • music school • music theory • Nadezhda von Meck • Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel • narrative • Nikolai Mikhailovsky • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov • non-Russian characters • Opera • operas • Orchestration • Orientalism • Orientalist truisms • Pan Voyevoda • pedagogical strategies • performers • Philosophy • Phrase (music) • poetic beauty • Poetry • Political satire • Populism • prehistoric village • Prince Igor • Private Opera • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky • Richard Taruskin • Richard Wagner • Rimsky-Korsakov school • Romanticism • Rubinstein • Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera) • Russian characters • Russian classical music • Russian convention • Russian culture • Russian Empire • Russian Language • Russian Literature • Russian Music • Russian Musical Society • Russian musicology • russian nobility • Russian opera • Russian painting • Russian politics • russians • Russian state • Russian Style • Russian symbolism • Russo-Japanese war • Sadko • Salieri • Satire • Savva Mamontov • Sentience • sergei diaghilev • Sergei Prokofiev • Sergei Rachmaninoff • Singing • skepticism • snegurochka • social cooperation • Soviet musicology • Soviet Union • St. Petersburg Conservatory • Superiority (short story) • Symbolism (arts) • Symbolist • theater management • The Golden Cockerel • The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya • The Maid of Pskov • The Orchestra • The Snow Maiden • The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) • The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov) • The Tsar's Bride (opera) • treatise • V. • Vissarion Belinsky • visual artists • Vladimir Stasov • Writing • yellow peril
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18551-4 / 0691185514
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18551-4 / 9780691185514