Background
Rimsky-Korsakov was born into an aristocratic family.
Rimsky-Korsakov was born into an aristocratic family.
Was learning at home taking personal lessons
In 1859-1869, feeling the need for more professional musical skills, Rimsky-Korsakov took lessons from pianist Theodore Kanille.
Graduated with honors
Rimsky-Korsakov composed dozens of art songs, arrangements of folk songs, chamber and piano music. While the piano music is relatively inimportant, many of the art songs possess a delicate beauty. While they yield in overy lyricism to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, otherwise they reserve their place in the standard repertory of Russian singers.
Rimsky-Korsakov also wrote a body of choral works, both secular and for Russian Orthodox Church service. The latter include settings of portions of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (despite his staunch atheism).
Operas:
Historical drama: The Maid of Pskov, The Tsar's Bride, Pan Voyevoda, Servilya
Epics: Sadko
Folk operas: May Night, Christmas Eve
Fairy tales and legends: The Snow Maiden, Kashchey the Deathless, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, The Golden Cockerel
Stylistic experiments: Mlada, Mozart and Salieri, The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga
It is known that a child was fascinated by the music composer, met with the works of Rossini, Beethoven, Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn, but the greatest impression on him made music by Mikhail Glinka - his "Kamarinskaya", "Spanish overtures," the opera "Ivan Susanin" and "Ruslan andLudmila. "
