Saint Petersburg Conservatory

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Chapters: Academics of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Diaghilev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nathan Milstein, Cesare Pugni, Jascha Heifetz, Valery Gergiev, Eduard Khil, Nikolai Obukhov, Anatoly Lyadov, Leopold Auer, Anna Netrebko, Neeme Järvi, Grigory Sokolov, Solomon Volkov, Vasily Petrenko, Alexander Veprik, Clara Rockmore, Ivan Yershov, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Oleg Caetani, Vladimir Martynov, Sergei Slonimsky, Andrew Goodwin, Nikolai Malko, Ilya Musin, Arcadi Volodos, Semyon Bychkov, Roman Matsov, Veniamin Margolin, Isabelle Vengerova, Elina Karokhina, Martyn Brabbins, Rodion Azarkhin, Valery Zhelobinsky, Maxim Shostakovich, Leonid Nikolayev, Vitaly Bujanovsky, Lev Vinocour, Ariy Pazovsky, Aleksandr Orlov, Yuri Kochnev, Lev Barenboim, Yuri Simonov, Pavel Egorov, Mikhail Chulaki, Peeter Süda, Tatul Altunyan, John Landor, Alfreds Kalnin¿, Nikolai Rabinovich, Aleksey Orlovetsky, Edouard Grikurov, Leah Zelikhman. Excerpt: Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: , Russian pronunciation: ) (18 March 1844, ¿ 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions¿Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade¿are considered staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects. Rimsky-Korsakov believed, as did fellow composer Mily Balakirev and critic Vladimir Stasov, in developing a nationalistic style of classical music. This style employed Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as musical orientalism, and eschewed traditional Western compositional methods. However, Rimsky-Korsakov appreciated Western musical techniques after he became a professor of musical composition, harmony and orchestration at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1871. He undertook a rigorous three-year program of self-education and became a master of Western methods, incorporating them alongside the influences of Mikhail Glinka and fellow members of The Five. His techniques of composition and orchestration were further enriched by his exposure to the works of Richard Wagner. For much of his life, Rimsky-Korsakov combined his composition and teaching with a career in the Russian military¿at first as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, then as the civilian Inspector of Naval Bands. He wrote that he developed a passion for the ocean in childhood from reading books and hearing of his older brother's exploits in the navy. This love of the sea might have influenced him to write two of his best-known orchestral works, the musical tableau Sadko (not his later opera of the same name) and Scheherazade. Through his service as Inspector of Naval Bands, Rimsky-Korsa