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Great lives ; 91
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1844-61. Ancestry ; Birth ; Uncle Pipon ; First music lessons ; Attempts at composition ; Enters Corps of naval Cadets ; Musical experiences in Petersburg ; Relations with brother ; Studies with F.A. Canille ; Conducts a cadet choir -- 1861-65. Meets Balakirev ; Begins symphony in E flat minor ; Balakirev's tutelage ; Leaves naval college ; Resists temptation to leave the service ; Sails for England in the Almaz ; In American waters ; At Rio ; In the Mediterranean ; Returns to Russia ; Renewed interest in music ; Completes the first symphony -- 1865-71. First symphony performed ; Meets Dargomizhsky and Lyudmila Shestakova ; First songs published ; Overture on Russian Themes ; Rimsky-Korsakov as pianist ; The orchestral Sadko and the composer's opinion of it ; Berlioz visits Russia ; Dargomizhsky's circle ; The Purgolds ; Antar ; Begins The Maid of Pskov ; Adventure in criticism ; Orchestration of Dargomizhsky's Stone Guest ; Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky share a room -- 1871-76. Offered professorship at St. Petersburg ; Technical ignorance ; Acceptance after doubts ; Successful bluff ; Death of Voin Rimsky-Korsakov ; Betrothal to Nadezhda Purgold ; Her influence ; The collective Mlada ; The Maid of Pskov causes trouble with the censorship ; Marriage ; Production of The Maid of Pskov ; Rimsky-Korsakov leaves the Navy -- Becomes civilian inspector of Naval bands -- Studies wind-instruments ; Self-education in harmony and counterpoint ; Third symphony ; Birth of first child ; Debut as conductor ; Becomes director of Free School of Music ; In the Crimea ; Preoccupation with academic counterpoint ; Second version of Antar ; Defects as a conductor -- 1876-87. Collections of folk-songs ; Begins Record of My Musical Life ; Collaborates in editing Glinka's operas ; Second version of The Maid of Pskov ; May Night ; The Paraphrases ; Free School concerts ; Snow Maiden ; 'Praying to nature' ; Pantheism ; Legend for orchestra and Sinfonietta on Russian Themes ; Mussorgsky's death ; Rimsky-Korsakov supervises the publication of his works ; In the Crimea again ; Resigns directorship of the Free School of Music ; Work on Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina ; Meeting with Belyayev ; Piano concerto ; Assistant music director of the Imperial Chapel ; Period of sterility ; The Belayev circle ; Belaiev turns publisher and founds the Russian Symphony concerts ; First and third symphonies revised and reorchestrated ; Writes harmony text-book ; B-la-F quartet and Fantasia on Russian Themes -- 1887-93. Death of Borodin ; Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov complete Prince Igor ; The Spanish Capriccio ; Jour de Fete quartet ; Easter Overture and Sheherazade ; Wagner's influence ; Mlada ; Rimsky-Korsakov conducts at the Paris Exhibition ; French musicians ; In Brussels ; Family misfortunes ; Third version of The Maid of Pskov ; 'No use for music' ; 'A great part of the Russian school is cold, brain-spun stuff' ; Strained relations with Balakirev ; Typically Russian crisis ; Preoccupation with aesthetics and philosophy ; Alarming physical phenomena ; Lapses of memory ; Dislike of the Imperial Chapel ; Masha's illness and death at Yalta -- 1893-96. Resigns from Imperial chapel ; Desire to compose again ; Christmas Eve ; Sadko as an opera ; Disillusionment with Christmas Eve ; 'I prefer to orchestrate rather than to compose' ; Difficulties with the censorship ; V.I. Belsky ; Addition to Sadko ; 'Dreadful weariness' ; Shalyapin's portrait of the composer ; Outraged Grand dukes ; 'Revision' and reorchestration of Boris Godunov ; Begins book on instrumentation -- 1896-1904. Outburst of song writing ; 'Genuine vocal music' ; Mozart and Salieri ; Switezianka ; Great industry ; The Mamontov opera company ; Boyarinya Vera Sheloga ; The Tsar's Bride ; Korsakov's operas are performed outside Russia ; Various opera plans ; Tsar Saltan ; The Song of Oleg the Wise ; New figures in the Belaev circle ; Servilia ; Escape from nationalism ; New spirit in the imperial theatres ; Thirty-fifth anniversary celebrations ; Pan Voevoda ; The 'prelude-cantata' From Homer ; Kashchey the Immortal ; The Stone Guest re-scored and revised ; Meets the young Stravinsky ; Kitezh ; 'Art is the most enchanting of lies' ; Death of M.P. Belaev ; On the Tomb -- 1904-1908. Political repercussions of Japanese War ; Rimsky-Korsakov defends the students rigts ; Letter to Russ ; Dismissed from conservatoire ; Resings from Russian Music Society ; Popular hero ; Scene in the Komissarzhevsky theatre ; Ban on Rimsky-Korsakov's works ; Retreat to Vechasha ; 'Time for musical-literary work' ; Continued political troubles ; Conservatoire reopens ; Rimsky-Korsakov reinstated ; Stormy scene at council of professors ; Byron's Heaven and Earth ; Another version of Boris Godunov ; Finishes Record of My Musical Life ; The Golden Cockerel ; Gives lessons to a young Stravinsky ; Kitezh produced ; Dyagilev's festival of Russian music ; Experiences in Paris ; At Lyubensk ; Declines and English doctorate ; Views on Isadora Duncan ; The censor objects to The Golden Cockerel ; Attacks of angina pectoris ; The Cockerel forbidden in Moscow ; Fresh attacks ; Death ; The nature of Rimsky-Korsakov's art. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 131) and works list (pages 133-142). |
