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Sergei Prokofiev wrote a Fantasia on Scheherazade for piano (1926), which he recorded on piano roll. The film Invitation to the Dance by Gene Kelly uses Scheherazade as dance music in the third story of the movie, the animated segment "Sinbad the Sailor".
Both settings are influenced by Russian composers, particularly Rimsky-Korsakov, who had written a symphonic suite based on Scheherazade in 1888. The first composition was heavily influenced by Russian music, the second used a text inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic poem. The musical relation between the overture and the song cycle is tenuous.
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that May Night was of great importance because, despite the opera's containing a good deal of contrapuntal music, he nevertheless "cast off the shackles of counterpoint [emphasis Rimsky-Korsakov]". [87] He wrote the opera in a folk-like melodic idiom, and scored it in a transparent manner much in the style of Glinka. [57]
Directed by famed radio director Mohamed Mahmoud Shabaan also known by his nickname Baba Sharoon, the series featured a cast of respected Egyptian actors, among them Zouzou Nabil as Scheherazade and Abdelrahim El Zarakany as Shahryar. [142] Aladdin (2019) is a musical fantasy film directed by Guy Ritchie from a screenplay he co-wrote with John ...
Song of Scheherazade is a 1947 American musical film directed by Walter Reisch. It tells the story of an imaginary episode in the life of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( Jean-Pierre Aumont ), in 1865, when he was a young naval officer on shore leave in Morocco .
Scheherazade (/ ʃ ə ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ z ɑː d,-d ə /) [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.
The work is played during the opening credits and as the Spanish Carnival background music during Josef von Sternberg's film The Devil Is a Woman (1935), credited on screen as 'Music based on Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Spanish Caprice" and Old Spanish Melodies'. Excerpts were heard in the fictional 1947 biopic of Rimsky-Korsakov, Song of Scheherazade.
The Five (Russian: Могучая кучка, lit. 'Mighty Bunch'), also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin.