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Date. October 28, 1888. Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехеразада, romanized:Shekherazada, IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights). [ 1 ] This orchestral work combines two ...
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov[a] (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) [b] was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. [c] He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions— Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade —are staples of ...
It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's version that Night on Bald Mountain achieved lasting fame. Premiering in Saint Petersburg in 1886, the work became a concert favourite. Half a century later, the work obtained perhaps its greatest exposure through the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia (1940), featuring an arrangement by Leopold Stokowski, based on Rimsky-Korsakov's version.
The chief vizier (father) Dunyazad (sister) Spouse. Shahryar. Children. 3 sons and possibly 1 daughter. Other names. Shahrazad, Shahrzad. Scheherazade (/ ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd, - də /) [1] is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
Seven, They Are Seven, Op. 30 (1917–18, rev. 1933), cantata for tenor, chorus, and large orchestra. Melodie, Op. 35bis (1920), for female voice and orchestra. Vocal Suite from The Fiery Angel, Op. 37bis (1923, incomplete) Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936), a children's story for narrator and orchestra. Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[n 1] (/ tʃaɪˈkɒfski / chy-KOF-skee; [2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical ...
One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, Alf Laylah wa-Laylah) [ 1 ] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c.1706–1721), which ...
See media help. " Flight of the Bumblebee " (Russian: Полёт шмеля) is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. This perpetuum mobile is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee.