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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
12+ albums
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Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков) 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects. Rimsky-Korsakov believed, as did fellow composer Mily Balakirev and critic Vladimir Stasov, in developing a nationalistic style of classical music. This style employed Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as musical orientalism, and eschewed traditional Western compositional methods. However, Rimsky-Korsakov appreciated Western musical techniques after he became a professor of musical composition, harmony and orchestration at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1871. He undertook a rigorous three-year program of self-education and became a master of Western methods, incorporating them alongside the influences of Mikhail Glinka and fellow members of The Five. His techniques of composition and orchestration were further enriched by his exposure to the works of Richard Wagner. For much of his life, Rimsky-Korsakov combined his composition and
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Scheherazade: The Tale Of The Kalendar Prince
122,0622Flight of the Bumblebee
98,3493The Tale Of Tsar Saltan: The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumblebee
50,6564Scheherazade
24,3175Spanish Capriccio in A Major, Op. 34: III. Alborada. Vivo e strepitoso
21,7066Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: Flight of the Bumblebee: Flight of the Bumble-Bee
17,0217Flight of the Bumble Bee
13,4638Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: Flight of the Bumblebee
12,0209Scheherazade: The Sea & Sinbad's Ship
10,22210Christmas Eve: Act I: Scene VI - Czardas and the Rain of Shooting Stars
9,102albums
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov (The Best Of)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve / Night On Mount Triglav
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Shéhérazade
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Flight Of The Bumblebee
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