Online biography of nikolai rimsky korsakov

A member of the famous Russian “Mighty Handful,” Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov was a passionate advocate of a Russian national music.  With little formal training he rose to become, perhaps, the group’s most esteemed member.  In fact, he was so admired that he was offered a professorship at the St.

Petersburg Conservatory.  This offer was made despite the fact that Rimsky-Korsakov and his colleagues tended to oppose institutionalized music.  Nonetheless, with some trepidation, he accepted the position and went on to train the next generation of great Russian composers.

Military Education

Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was born into an aristocratic family on March 18, , in Tikhvin, Russia.  At an early age Rimsky-Korsakov demonstrated a talent for music by transposing songs his father sang to the piano.  By the age of five he was receiving piano lessons from a local teacher.

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