Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow Sheet Music

Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (b. March 18, 1844 in Tikhvin, † June 21, 1908 near Luga), in short Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was a Russian composer, who epochally can be roughly assigned to the Romantic or also to the epoch Post-Romantic Music. Through his professorship of instrumentation and composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Rimsky-Korsakov had a formative effect on the Russian (and to some extent Central European) music scene of the late 19th century, forming the "Mighty Group" with other important St. Petersburg composers. Rimsky-Korsakov's musical influences can be felt in the music of Prokofiev, Glazunov (both students of Korsakov), Respighi, Ravel and Debussy.
His oeuvre includes 15 operas, which contain both historical and fairy-tale themes. Rimsky-Korsakov also likes to draw on Russian folk music elements in his music, such as in the Andante of his Symphony No. 1 in E-flat minor, Op. 1, which he composed at the age of 17. Two more symphonies, 17 orchestral works of various genres (including his wonderful Hummelflug, of which you will find numerous arrangements in our webshop), six chamber music compositions as well as a publication of Harmonielehre round off his oeuvre.

You can search our online store specifically for titles by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, for example in the spelling rimski-korsakov scheherazade for his famous setting of the stories from "1001 Nights", the Symphonic Suite op. 35, "Scheherazade".