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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

Composers --- Alexander Ostrovsky. --- Alexei Ratmansky. --- Asian territories. --- Conservatory system. --- Igor Stravinsky. --- Khovanshchina. --- Maurice Ravel. --- Mighty Handful. --- Modest Musorgsky. --- Mozart and Salieri. --- Mozart. --- Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel. --- Nikolai Mikhailovsky. --- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. --- Orientalism. --- Orientalist truisms. --- Rimsky-Korsakov school. --- Russian Empire. --- Russian Style. --- Russian characters. --- Russian classical music. --- Russian convention. --- Russian culture. --- Russian music. --- Russian musicology. --- Russian opera. --- Russian painting. --- Russian politics. --- Russian state. --- Russo-Japanese War. --- Salieri. --- Sergei Diaghilev. --- Snegurochka. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet musicology. --- St. Petersburg Conservatory. --- Symbolist. --- The Golden Cockerel. --- The Snow Maiden. --- aesthetics. --- ballet. --- censorship. --- classicist aesthetics. --- colonial conquest. --- composer. --- composition. --- compositional school. --- contemporaneity. --- enchantment. --- experiential connection. --- historical musicology. --- humane politics. --- individual feeling. --- lyricism. --- metaphysical excess. --- muse. --- music theory. --- musical life. --- non-Russian characters. --- opera. --- operas. --- orchestration. --- pedagogical strategies. --- performers. --- philosophy. --- poetic beauty. --- political satire. --- populism. --- prehistoric village. --- sentience. --- social cooperation. --- theater management. --- visual artists.