This definition seems to be most often coupled with a citation of Chopin's "Berceuse" of 1843; but not all lullabies in western art music match the definition or Chopin's example. The operatic ...

New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: "Rimsky-Korsakov – what a name! It suggests fierce whiskers stained with vodka". Life and Music Rimsky began his ...

This second anthology of Russian writing on Russian music begins in 1880 (where the first volume concluded) and ends in 1917. It brings the thoughts of leading Russian music critics to an ...

The music they dance to includes Debussy’s Syrinx, Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Flight of the Bumblebee. Designed and choreographed to actively engage children ...

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Tchaikovsky TOKYO, April 22./TASS/. The annual Festival of Russian Culture in Japan has opened with a concert of soloists from St. Petersburg’s House of Music ...

Despite the meagre amount of his music heard regularly today, Rimsky-Korsakov’s place in Russian music cannot be overstated. Compared with the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, a meagre amount of ...

Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical and biographical films of the postwar cinema of the Soviet Union. The film tells about the last ...