An edition of My Musical Life
(1923)
My Musical Life
by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
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Musicians, Correspondence, reminiscences, Rimsky-korsakov, nikolai andreevich, 1844-1908, Correspondence, Music, Biography, Composers, History and criticism, Russia, Musique, Histoire et critique, Musiciens, Biographies, Composers, biography, Soviet union, biographyShowing 3 featured editions. View all 28 editions?
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Table of Contents
Contents
And Introduction By Carl Van Vechten
Page xiii
Preface to the First Russian Edition
Page xxi
Preface to the Second Russian Edition
Page xxiv
Chapter I.
1844-56
Page 3
Childhood Years in Tikhvin. The First Manifestations of Musical Abilities. Studying Music. Reading. Inclination Towards the Sea and Maritime Service. First Attempts at Composition. Leaving for St. Petersburg.
Chapter II.
1856-61
Page 9
The Golovins. The Marine Corps. Getting Acquainted with Operatic and Symphony Music. Ulikh's and Kanille's Lessons.
Chapter III.
1861-62
Page 17
Acquaintance with Balakireff and His Circle. The Symphony. My Father's Death. Reminiscences of Him. Graduation as a Midshipman. Detailed to Sail in Foreign Waters.
Chapter IV.
1862
Page 23
My Career in My Parents' Eyes. My Musical Preceptors. Balakireff as a Teacher of Composition and Leader of the Circle. The Other Members of Balakireff's Circle in the Early Sixties and the Teacher-Leader's Attitude Toward Them. Gusakovski, Cui, Musorgski, and I. The Tendencies and Spirit at the Marine School and in the Fleet in My Time. Sailing Abroad.
Chapter V.
1862-65
Page 38
The Cruise Abroad. Sailing to England and the Libau Coast. Rear-Admiral Lyesovski. The Voyage to America. Our Stay in the United States. Ordered to the Pacific. Captain Zelyony. From New York to Rio de Janeiro and Back to Europe.
Chapter VI.
1865-66
Page 52
Return to Music. Acquaintance with Borodin. My First Symphony. Balakireff and the Members of His Circle. The Performance of the First Symphony. The Musical Life of the Circle. Overture on Russian Themes. My First Song.
Chapter VII.
1866-67
Page 64
Rognyeda. The circle's attitude toward Syeroff. Writing the Serbian Fantasy. Acquaintance with L. I. Shestakova. The Slavic concert. Growing intimacy with Musorgski. Acquaintance with P. I. Chaykovski. N. N. Lodyzhenski. Balakireff's trip to Prague. Writing Sadko and songs. Analysis of Sadko.
Chapter VIII.
1867-68
Page 74
Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. Berlioz. The Circle's Achievements in Composition. Soirées at Dargomyzhski's. Acquaintance with the Purgold Family. Writing of Antar and First Thought of Pskovityanka (The Maid of Pskov). The Popular Concert. Analysis of Antar. Trip to Visit Lodyzhenski. Composing Pskovityanka.
Chapter IX.
1868-70
Page 89
Musorgski's Wedding. Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. Death of Dargomyzhski. Nizhegorodtsy and William Ratcliff at the Mariinski Theatre. Boris Godunoff. Concerts of the Free Music School. Gedeonoff's Mlada. Completing the Orchestration of The Stone Guest. Songs.
Chapter X.
1870-71
Page 99
Orchestration of Pskovityanka. Entering on Professional Duties at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Chapter XI.
1871-73
Page 105
Illness and Death of My Brother. Living with Musorgski. Difficulties with the Censor about Pskovityanka. N. K. Krabbe. Production of The Stone Guest. Marriage and Trip Abroad. Production of Pskovityanka and Scenes from Boris Godunoff. Symphony in C-Major. Appointment to the Post of Inspector of Music Bands of the Naval Department. Study of Wind Instruments.
Chapter XII.
1873-75
Page 119
Début as Conductor. Musorgski. His Khovanshchina and Sorochinskaya Yarmarka (The Fair at Sorochintsy). Operatic Prize Contest. Trip to Nikolayeff and the Crimea. Studying Harmony and Counterpoint. Directorship of the Free Music School.
Chapter XIII.
1875-76
Page 135
A Capella Choruses. Concerts of the Free Music School. A. Lyadoff and G. Dütsch. Collections of Russian Songs. The Pagan Sun-cult. Resumption of Meetings with Balakireff. The Sextet and the Quintet. Editing the Scores of Glinka. Revision of Pskovityanka.
Chapter XIV.
1876-77
Page 152
Various Compositions. The Fate of the Sextet and of the Quintet. Three Concerts of the Free Music School. Borodin's Second Symphony. The Beginnings of May Night. Prize Contest for Choral Compositions. Soirées of the Free Music School. Our Musical Circle. Borodin's Home Life. Overture and Entr'actes to Pskovityanka.
Chapter XV.
1877-79
Page 167
Beginning to Compose May Night. A. Lyadoff. Paraphrases. Proposed Trip to Paris. Completion of May Night; Its Characteristics. Borodin and Musorgski. Concerts of the Free Music School. First Trip to Moscow. Compositions to Commemorate the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Tsar's Reign. Beginning to Write The Fairy-tale. The Russian Quartet. Work on Prince Igor. Borodin at His Summer Home.
Chapter XVI.
1879-80
Page 185
Production of May Night. Opinions About It. Concerts of the Free Music School. Balakireff. Lyeonova and Musorgski. My Second Visit to Moscow. Beginning of Snyegoorochka. Krooshenski. Sasha Glazunoff.
Chapter XVII.
1880-81
Page 196
The Summer at Stelyovo. Composing Snyegoorochka. Completion of Skazka (Fairy-tale). Analysis of Snyegoorochka.
Chapter XVIII.
1881-82
Page 207
Skazka (Fairy-tale). Concert of the Free Music School. Death of Musorgski. Resignation from Directorship of the Free Music School. Trip to the South. Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. Production of Snyegoorochka. The Critics. Balakireff's Return to the Free Music School. Glazunoff's First Symphony. Our Circle. Work on Khovanshchina. Visit to Moscow. Acquaintanceship with M. P. Byelyayeff. Noch' na Lysoy Gorye (A Night on Bald Mount). Concerto for the Piano. Tamara.
Chapter XIX.
1883-86
Page 223
Court Chapel. The Coronation. Organizing the Instrumental and the Precentors' Classes. Abolition of the Post of Inspector of Naval Bands. Byelyayeff's Fridays. A. Lyadoff's Marriage. Textbook of Harmony. Byelyayeff-Publisher. Rehearsal at the Pyetropavlovski School. Revision of Symphony in C-Major. Beginning of Russian Symphony Concerts. Trip to the Caucasus.
Chapter XX.
1886-88
Page 237
Russian Symphony Concerts. Fantasy for the Violin. Death of Borodin. Balakireff's Circle and Byelyayeff's Compared. Orchestrating Prince Igor. Composition of Capriccio, and Its Performance. Shekherazada. Easter Overture.
Chapter XXI.
1888-92
Page 251
Production of Der Ring des Nibelungen. The Polonaise from Boris Godunoff with New Orchestration. Russian Symphony Concerts. Beginning of Mlada. Trip to Paris. Completion of the Sketch of Mlada and Its Orchestration. Trip to Brussels. Domestic Misfortunes. Quarter-of-a-century Jubilee. New Tendencies in Byelyayeff's Circle. Production of Prince Igor. Production of Mlada Does Not Take Place. Revision of Maid of Pskov. Re-orchestrating of Sadko. Acquaintanceship with Yastryebtseff.
Chapter XXII.
1892-93
Page 264
Studying Aesthetics and Philosophy. Production of Mlada. Yolanta. 'Friendly' Dinner. Weariness and Ill-health. Production of Snyegoorochka in Moscow. Altani. May Night on a Private Stage. Leoncavallo. Safonoff. Impressions of Visit to Moscow. Russian Symphony Concerts. Krooshevski. Ruslan and Lyudmila Anniversary.
Chapter XXIII.
1893-95
Page 283
Quartet Prize Competition. Decision to Leave the Chapel. Summer at Yalta. Chaykovski's Death and the Sixth Symphony. Trip to Odessa. My Return to Composing. Beginning of Christmas Eve. Summer. Vyechasha. Continuation of Christmas Eve and Beginning of Sadko. Death of Rubinstein. Trip to Kiyeff. Pskovityanka at the Society of Musical Gatherings. Censorship Difficulties with Christmas Eve. Composing the Opera Sadko. Byel'ski.
Chapter XXIV.
1895-97
Page 301
Orchestrating Sadko. Production and Adventures of Christmas Eve. Work on Boris and Completing Sadko. Boris at the Society of Musical Gatherings. Russian Symphony Concerts and Glazunoff. The Operas Mlada, Christmas Eve and Sadko Compared. Writing Songs. Beginning of Mozart and Salieri.
Chapter XXV.
1897-99
Page 312
Sadko at S. I. Mamontoff's Private Opera. Vyera Sheloga. The Tsar's Bride. Russian Symphony Concert. Snyegoorochka at the Mariinski Theatre. The Young Composers of Moscow. Tsar Saltan. Lay of Olyeg the Prophetic. S. I. Taneyeff.
Chapter XXVI.
1899-1901
Page 326
Beginning of Servilia. May Night at the Frankfurt Opera House. Trip to Brussels. The Tsar's Bride on a Private Stage in St. Petersburg. Composing and Orchestrating Servilia. Sadko at the Imperial Opera. Tsar Saltan on a Private Stage in Moscow. Resignation from Conductorship of Russian Symphony Concerts. 35th Anniversary. Various Operatic Plans.
Chapter XXVII.
1901-05
Page 336
Composing the Prelude-Cantata From Homer and Kashchey the Deathless. Vyera Sheloga and The Maid of Pskov at the Grand Theatre in Moscow. Composing Pan Voyevoda. New Orchestration of The Stone Guest. Servilia at the Mariinski Theatre. Kashchey on a Private Stage in Moscow. Composing The Story of Kityezh. Sheloga and Pskovityanka at the Mariinski Theatre. Tsar Saltan on a Private Stage. Byelyayeff's Death and His Last Will. Pan Voyevoda and Servilia on Private Stages. Boris Godunoff at the Mariinski Theatre. Death of Laroche.
Chapter XXVIII.
1905-06
Page 346
Disturbances Among Student-Youth. Performance of Kashchey in St. Petersburg. Text-book of Instrumentation. Pan Voyevoda in Moscow. Aryenski's Death. Affairs at the Conservatory. Revival of Snyegoorochka. Concerts: Ziloti, Russian Symphony and Russian Musical Society. Additions to the Score of Boris Godunoff. Musorgski's Wedding. Summer of 1906.
Appendix I.
Three Letters of Mme. L. I. Shestakova
Page 359
Appendix II.
Five Subscription Concerts of the Free Music School
Page 361
Appendix III.
Concert of February 3, 1876, at the Town Council Hall
Page 364
Appendix IV.
Concert of March 23, 1876, at the Town Council Hall
Page 365
Appendix V.
Two Concerts of June 22, and 29, 1889, at the Paris Universal Exposition
Page 366
Appendix VI.
Two Open Letters of Rimsky-Korsakoff
a.
To the Editor of the Newspaper, Roos'
Page 368
b.
To the Director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Page 369
Appendix VII.
Rimsky-Korsakoff's Open Letter to the Directorate of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (March 24, 1905)
Page 371
Index
Page 375
Edition Notes
At head of title: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakoff.
The Russian original was edited by the author's wife.
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