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          Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March – 21 June ) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five....

          Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

          Russian composer (1844–1908)

          "Rimsky-Korsakov" redirects here.

          For other uses, see Rimsky-Korsakov (disambiguation).

          Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov[a][b] (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908)[c] was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.[d] He was a master of orchestration.

          Composer of the Week: Donald Macleod surveys the life and music of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

        1. He was a composer who championed musical experiment and exploration.
        2. Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March – 21 June ) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.
        3. Recommended Biography.
        4. Donald Macleod continues the story of Rimsky-Korsakov's final decades, with the help of a contemporary biography written by one of the composer's most ardent.

          5. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suiteScheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his fifteen operas.

          Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy-tale and folk subjects.

          Rimsky-Korsakov believed in developing a nationalistic style of classical music, as did his fellow composer Mily Balakirev and the critic Vladimir Stasov.

          This style employed Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as