Biography of Rimsky Korsakov

The Presidential Library published: March 15, on March 18, it turns on the birth of an outstanding Russian composer, teacher, music theorist of Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. His work is an integral part of not only Russian, but also world culture. Music did not immediately become the main thing in the life of the classic. The future composer was born in Tikhvin on March 18 on March 6 according to the old style of the year.

The first signs of musical abilities were manifested in it very early. The family had an old piano on which the father played. I was not yet two years old, as I already distinguished all the melodies that my mother sang to me; Then, three or four years, I perfectly beat the toy drum to the beat when my father played the piano. Father often suddenly suddenly changed the pace and rhythm, and I immediately followed him, wrote Nikolai Andreevich.

From the age of six, the boy began to learn to play the piano. According to the future composer, he was not particularly diligent. However, having outstanding musical abilities, he came to the point that he could “bend to the paper to the piano on the paper on its own.” Of course, my teachers did not take any participation in my composer attempts and did not even know about them; I embarrassed to talk about my writings, and my parents looked at them, as a simple prank, a game; Yes, it really was at that time, ”said Rimsky -Korsakov.

He liked reading. As he himself wrote later, he learned to read “Joking”. Having an excellent memory, he remembered entire pages of those works that his mother read to him, word for word. Like all the boys, he loved to “step aside”: climbed on the roofs and on the trees, arranged scenes, falling on the floor with crying if it was punished. He was “captivated” by the thought to become a sailor, he never dreamed of a musician, by his own admission.

Parents decided to give the young man to the Marine Corps, as his uncle and brother were sailors. At the end of July, his father drove the boy to St. Petersburg to enter the Sea Cadet Corps. Rimsky-Korsakov began to study marine affairs with interest. He wrote: “I behaved well, I studied well too. I somehow forgot about music at that time, she was not interested in me, although on Sundays I began to take piano lessons at a certain street.

The street was a cellist in the Alexandrinsky Theater and a bad pianist. " After some time, performance and discipline in the corps worsened, but a love of music appeared. Rimsky-Korsakov often visited the theater. The opera Glinka “Life for the Tsar” brought him to “perfect delight”. I was a summer child who passionately loved music and played it, ”the classic admitted.

In the fall of the year, Rimsky-Korsakov begins to engage in the piano with the teacher Fedor Calley. In November, Calilaa brought a young student to a circle of musician Milia Balakirev - a “powerful pile”. Communication with musicians played an important role in the creative life of Rimsky-Korsakov. In the year, Rimsky-Korsakov graduated from the Marine Cadet Corps: "My release in Mardemarin took place on April 8." He received the title of midshipman at the end of the school course, there were free people.

Rimsky-Korsakov received the officer’s rank after a two-year service. The young man had a three -year -old round -the -world journey on the clip “Almaz” and the complete “excommunication from music”. While on the trip, he thought: “Setting together with the Balakirevsky circle, I began to dream of a musical road; He was encouraged and directed by a circle on this road.

At that time I really loved music passionately.

” Returning from a trip around the world, Rimsky-Korsakov devoted himself entirely to music. In the year, he writes "Serbian fantasy." She was performed in one of the concerts of the Russian Musical Society. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky described this event in his book “Musical feuilletons and notes of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky” G. In the entire civilized world there is no such audience that, in its sentences, expressed by either a loud approval, or eloquent silence, would be infallible.

” Recall that Mr. Rimsky-Korsakov is still a young man that he has a whole future and there is no doubt that this remarkably gifted person is destined to become one of the best decorations of our art. ” The great musician Peter Ilyich was right. Rimsky-Korsakov left behind a rich creative heritage. Fifteen operas, symphonic works, vocal works. In addition, Nikolai Andreevich conducted active teaching.

In the year, he became a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. From for a year, he is an inspector of the music choirs of the naval department, and from for a year - the director of a free music school. Concluding his autobiographical book in the year, the composer will write: “The annals of my musical life have been brought to the end. She is erratic, not equally selected everywhere, written by a bad syllable, often even very dry; But it is only true in it, and this will be her interest.

”In the electronic fund of the presidential library, letters of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel, the author of the sketches of the scenery for the “Tale of King Saltan”, costumes for Koshchei Immortal, and his wife, the outstanding singer Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabele-Bellybel are also available. It was for her extraordinary voice that Rimsky-Korsakov wrote many musical masterpieces, Nadezhda Ivanovna became the ideal “Korsakov singer”, filling the dispersion of the images of the princess, the Snow Maiden, the Marine Princess and other heroines of his operas.

On the portal of the presidential library, the materials of the correspondence of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov with Miliy Alekseevich Balakirev, published in the journal Musical Contemporary G, photo portraits of the composer and other materials, are also available. The material was prepared by the editors of the Portal "Culture of St. Petersburg". Quoting or copying is possible only with reference to the source: spbcult.