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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).
Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie, written in 1898 but unpublished during the composer's lifetime (it was only published in 1975), is a work for orchestra planned as the overture for an opera of the same name. [1] It was first performed at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique on 27 May 1899, conducted by the composer. It had a ...
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov [a] [b] (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) [c] was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. [d] He was a master of orchestration.
This is a list of musical compositions by the 20th-century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. By genre ... Fantasia on Scheherazade (1926) Things in Themselves, 2 ...
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.
Scheherazade in the palace of her husband, Shahryar. Scheherazade or Shahrazad (Persian: شهرزاد, Šahrzād, or شهرزاد, Šahrāzād, lit. ' child of the city ') [1] [2] is the legendary Persian queen who is the storyteller and narrator of The Nights. She is the daughter of the kingdom's vizier and the elder sister of Dunyazad.
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.
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 .