Biography Rome Korsakov

The main storyteller of Russian music in the year the whole world celebrates the flying of the birth of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is a world famous composer, creator of a composer school, in demand and currently, professor of the conservatory without a conservative education. He is called the most “folk” author, who drew inspiration in Russian nature, native lands, plots of epics, legends and fairy tales.

In the year, the whole world celebrates the flight on the birthday of Nikolai Andreevich. The New Year's musical festival “Sirius” precedes events in honor of the big anniversary and recalls interesting facts from the biography of the musician, who is considered the main storyteller of Russian music. Rimsky-Korsakov-sailor Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born in an aristocratic family belonging to an old noble family, whose history is closely connected with the fleet.

The boy dreamed of being a sailor, like his uncle Nikolai Petrovich and brother Warrior Andreevich, after whom he entered the Marine Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg in the year. There he studied military affairs, learned to shoot from the gun, repair the ships, went into the open sea several times. In the year, Rimsky-Korsakov graduated from the Marine Cadet Corps with honors.

He was accepted by the midshipman at the Military Sailiff "Almaz", on which he made a trip around the world, which lasted almost three years: he participated in an expedition to the banks of North America, visited the UK, Spain, Norway. Rimsky-Korsakov-the musician as a child Rimsky-Korsakov was fond of music: he began to play music at six years old, at 11 he wrote the first works.

As a student of the Marine School, he began to take lessons from the pianist Fedor Calley, who introduced him into the circle of musician Mili Balakirev, the founder of the “mighty pile”. Thanks to the influence of Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov begins work on his first symphony.

Natural talent helps the composer quickly and without school training to master the musical form, a colorful orchestra and the techniques of essays. Also, under the influence of the Balakirevsky circle, Rimsky-Korsakov begins to create music with a national Slavic color. The support on Russian musical folklore becomes the main source of the identity of his style. Rimsky-Korsakov-the owner of the “color” hearing of one of the important components of the style of Rimsky-Korsakov was the picture.

He saw the world through the eyes of the painter and, accordingly, described him: “Dark lazorer ocean”, “White heap clouds”, “Green-blue water of the bay”. The composer had a rare auditory feature - a synopsy, the so -called "color hearing." Thanks to this, he perceived tonality in different colors. For example, Major correlated with his blue color, the color of the waves. Perhaps that is why many of his "sea" works are written in this tonality.

Rimsky-Korsakov, a teacher in the year, the summer Rimsky-Korsakov had the opportunity to teach: he was invited by a professor of compositions and orchestral letters to the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Being more a practitioner musician than a theoretician, Nikolai Andreevich, in parallel with his students, sat down at the desk and began to study musical theory. Over 37 years of work in the St.

Petersburg Conservatory, he raised a galaxy of talented students, more composers and musicians. Among them are such luminaries of Russian music as Sergey Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, who determined the vector of the development of music of our time. Rimsky-Korsakov-the chief Russian opera composer, along with his own work, Nikolai Andreevich worked on the works of his friends, participants in a “mighty pile”.

After the death of Modest, Mussorgsky, for several years he edited the symphonic painting “Night on Lysya Gora” and ended the opera “Khovanshchina”, and prescribed the opera “Prince Igor” Alexander Borodin. In total, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote 15 operas-more than any other Russian composer. Most of them are based on fairy -tale plots - “The Tale of King Saltan”, “The Immortal”, “Golden Cockerel”, “Snow Maiden”, “Sadko” - or are associated with Russian history, epics, the world of fairy -tale science fiction, ancient folk beliefs.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.