Sadko, Op. 5 (Third Version 1892): Full Score

by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Composer)

Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera
Price 50 Cents

84 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1930

About the author

Traditional folk music heavily influenced operas and orchestral works of Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov.

With Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov, he his student, completed an opera.


This member of the group, known as "the five," mastered. His best-known Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade constitute staples of the classical repertoire alongside suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade exemplifies his frequent use of fairy tale and subjects.

Rimsky-Korsakov as fellow Mily Balakirev and critic Vladimir Stasov developed a classical nationalistic style. This style employed song and lore alongside exotic harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic elements in a practice, known as orientalism, and eschewed traditional western methods. Rimsky-Korsakov, a professor of harmony at the Saint Petersburg conservatory in 1871, however, appreciated western techniques. He undertook a rigorous three-year program of self-education and mastered western methods, incorporating them alongside the influences of Mikhail Glinka and fellow members of the five. His exposure to the works of Richard Wagner further enriched his techniques.

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كقصة فهي قصة تقليدية جدا بل خيالية طفولية إلا أن الاوبرا التي من تأليف ريمسكي كورساكوف كذلك فهي رائعة فعلا فالاوبرا روسية بامتياز الموسيقي الإنتاج فريمسكي كورساكوف اولا واخيرا مؤلف اوبرالي عظيم