Rimsky-Korsakov and His World : : Not Assigned / / ed. by Marina Frolova-Walker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• MitwirkendeR: Ader, Lidia,; Botstein, Leon,; Frey, Emily,; Frolova-Walker, Marina,; Issiyeva, Adalyat,; Morrison, Simon,; Nisnevich, Anna,; Panteleeva, Olga,; Timofeev, Yaroslav,
• HerausgeberIn: Frolova-Walker, Marina,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 44
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Permissions and Credits -- Correspondence -- The Professor and the Sea Princess: Letters of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel -- Operas in Context -- Rimsky-Korsakov, Snegurochka, and Populism -- You, Mozart, Aren't Worthy of Yourself ": Aesthetic Discontents of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri -- Orientalism and The Golden Cockerel -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and His Orient -- The Golden Cockerel, Censored and Uncensored -- Staging Defeat: The Golden Cockerel and the Russo-Japanese War -- Colleagues and Disciples -- St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Beginnings of Russian Musicology -- How Stravinsky Stopped Being a Rimsky-Korsakov Pupil -- Stylistic Turbulence: The Experience of the Rimsky-Korsakov School -- Afterword -- In Search of Beauty: Autocracy, Music, and Painting in Rimsky-Korsakov's Russia -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors -- OTHER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS VOLUMES PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL