Rimsky-Korsakov and his world / edited by Marina Frolova-Walker.
| Other author | Frolova-Walker, Marina editor. |
| Other author | Walker, Jonathan (Pianist) translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©2018. |
| Description | xiii, 367 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | [Bard Music Festival series] Bard Music Festival series. ^A368770 |
| Contents | Correspondence. The professor and the sea princess : letters of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel / edited by Marina Frolova-Walker ; translated by Jonathan Walker -- Operas in context. Rimsky-Korsakov, Snegurochka, and populism / Emily Frey ; You, Mozart, aren't worthy of yourself : aesthetic discontents of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri / Anna Nisnevich -- Orientalism and The golden cockerel. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and his orient / Adalyat Issiyeva ; The golden cockerel, censored and uncensored / Simon Morrison ; Staging defeat : The golden cockerel and the Russo-Japanese War / Marina Frolova-Walker ; St. Petersburg Conservatory and the beginnings of Russian musicology / Olga Panteleeva ; How Stravinsky stopped being a Rimsky-Korsakov pupil / Yaroslav Timofeev ; translated by Jonathan Walker ; Stylistic turbulence : the experience of the Rimsky-Korsakov school / Lidia Ader ; translated by Jonathan Walker -- Afterword. In search of beauty : autocracy, music and painting in Rimsky-Korsakov's Russia / Leon Botstein. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2018940955 |
| ISBN | 0691182701 |
| ISBN | 9780691182704 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 069118271X (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780691182711 (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.R52 R53 2018 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |