Roman Nikolai biography

Place of death: the Lyubensk estate, St. Petersburg province titles and regalia: professor, member of the Swedish Royal Musical Academy Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreevich-Russian composer, teacher, conductor, public figure, musical critic; Member of the Mighty Pile. Biography: [edit] Father of the composer, Andrei Petrovich Rimsky-Korsakov-, served for some time by the Novgorod vice-governor, and then by the Volyn civil governor; Mother, Sofya Vasilievna - was the daughter of a serf peasant woman and the rich landowner Vasily Fedorovich Skaritin.

At the age of six, Rimsky-Korsakov’s home schooling began, including the game on the piano, but in comparison with books, the music made a lesser impression on him: from the latter he liked church music, as well as Russian folk songs. At 11, he began to compose his first musical works. In the year, his father gave the dreaming about Nikolai's travels to the Marine Cadet Corps.

In the year, the future composer had a real enthusiasm for music: he met the operas of Rossini, Donizetti, von Weber, but he was especially struck by the Robert-Deville Dzhakomo Meyerber and the works of Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka-“Life for the Tsar”, “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. Then, interest in Beethoven’s music appeared, he was admired by the “pastoral symphony” of the composer, Mozart and Mendelsson.

Father died in the year, and the Roman-Korsakov family moved to St. Petersburg. In the same year, thanks to Fedor Calley, Nikolai met with composer Mili Balakirev and became a member of his circle, which had a decisive impact on the formation of his personality and aesthetic views. At that time, in the Balakirevsky circle, which later began to be called the “powerful bunch”, in addition to his head of Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov himself, entered C.

Kui and M. Balakirev led the work of younger colleagues and not only prompted the correct composer solutions for their works, but also helped with instrumentation. In the blue, Nikolai graduated with honors from the sea corps and was accepted by Mardemarin for the maritime service. Returning from the trip, Rimsky-Korsakov again gets into the society of members of the Balakirevsky circle, he meets his new participant-a chemist and novice composer A.

Borodin, with an idol of the mug A. Dargomyzhsky, with the sister of Glinka L. Shestakova and with P., the staging work of the composer, was the musical picture “Sadko”, later her music will be partially used in the opera of the same name. The program and sheethel has received its further development in the Antar symphonic suite. At the end of the x, Rimsky-Korsakov works on the instrumentation of other people's works: Caesar Kui helps with the orchestra of the opera “William Ratcliffe”, ends, according to the testament of the deceased Dargomyzhsky, his opera “Stone Guest”-together with M.

Balakirev and A. Lyadov, edited the score of the Opera of M. Glinka “Ruslan and Ruslan and Lyudmila ”, in the years - the score of the opera Ivan Susanin. For a long time he worked on finalization, orchestration and editors of the works of M. Mussorgsky: in the years he processed and edited the opera Khovanshchina; in the year I finalized the fantasy for the orchestra "Night on Lysya Gora"; In years, he worked on editing and orchestration of the opera Boris Godunov; In the year, edited the opera “Marriage” and worked on the orchestration of the three vocal works of the composer - “Gopak” from the poem T.

Shevchenko “Gaidamaki”, “Mushrooms” by the words of L. Meya and “Sleep, Samu, Peasant Son” from the poem of A. Ostrovsky “The governor”.

In the years of the border of the musical activity of Rimsky-Korsakov, they expanded: in the year he became a professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he taught classes of practical composition, instrumentation and orchestration; From for a year, he is an inspector of the wind orchestras of the naval department, from for a year - the director of a free music school.

Starting from the year, the composer took up conducting - first symphonic concerts, and then opera performances. In years, the composer creates such symphonic compositions as the Scheherazada, Spanish Capricio orchestra orchestra, the overture of the Bright Holiday. Starting from the year, Rimsky-Korsakov headed the Belyaevsky circle, in the years he was also an assistant to the manager of the court singing chapel in the rank of a state adviser.

In the years - a permanent conductor of "Russian symphonic concerts." So, on October 31, on November 12, the Spanish Kapricchio was for the first time under the direction of Rimsky-Korsakov, and in the year in the St. Petersburg Hall of the Nobility Assembly, the composer conducted the performance of the Sunday Okutura, which he dedicated to the memory of Borodin and Mussorgsky. In g.In the 90s, he creates opera operas “Night before Christmas”, “Sadko”, “Mozart and Salieri”, the prologue to the opera “Pskovityanka” and “Tsarist Bride” according to the drama of Leo Meya, during the revolutionary events-Rimsky-Korsakov made active support of the requirements of striking students and openly condemned the actions of the administration of the St.

Petersburg Conservatory: He He quit and returned to the conservatory only after granting her partial autonomous rights and the change of leadership. He died on June 8 on the year of life from myocardial infarction in Lyubensk, in his suburban estate, where the composer’s memorial museum complex is now located, combining two reconstructed estates - a house in Lyubensk and a neighboring estate of Vesash, where the composer lived up to a year.

He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Novodevichy cemetery. In the X years, the burial was transferred to the necropolis of art masters of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.