My Musical Life
By: translated from the revised second Russian edition by Judah A. Joffe; edited with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten.
Contributors: Rimskaia-Korsakova, Nadezhda Nikolaevna Purgol'd, 1848-1919, ed.; Joffe, Judah Achilles, 1873- tr.; Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, ed.
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Musicians -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.; Music -- Soviet Union.
Notes: At head of title: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakoff.
The Russian original was edited by the author's wife.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: And Introduction By Carl Van Vechten
pagenum: xiii; title: Preface to the First Russian Edition
pagenum: xxi
authors: N. Rimskaya-Korsakova; title: Preface to the Second Russian Edition
pagenum: xxiv
authors: N. Rimskaya-Korsakova; label: Chapter I
title: 1844-56
pagenum: 3; title: Childhood Years in Tikhvin. The First Manifestations of Musical Abilities. Studying Music. Reading. Inclination Towards the Sea and Maritime Service. First Attempts at Composition. Leaving for St. Petersburg.; label: Chapter II
title: 1856-61
pagenum: 9; title: The Golovins. The Marine Corps. Getting Acquainted with Operatic and Symphony Music. Ulikh's and Kanille's Lessons.; label: Chapter III
title: 1861-62
pagenum: 17; title: Acquaintance with Balakireff and His Circle. The Symphony. My Father's Death. Reminiscences of Him. Graduation as a Midshipman. Detailed to Sail in Foreign Waters.; label: Chapter IV
title: 1862
pagenum: 23; title: My Career in My Parents' Eyes. My Musical Preceptors. Balakireff as a Teacher of Composition and Leader of the Circle. The Other Members of Balakireff's Circle in the Early Sixties and the Teacher-Leader's Attitude Toward Them. Gusakovski, Cui, Musorgski, and I. The Tendencies and Spirit at the Marine School and in the Fleet in My Time. Sailing Abroad.; label: Chapter V
title: 1862-65
pagenum: 38; title: The Cruise Abroad. Sailing to England and the Libau Coast. Rear-Admiral Lyesovski. The Voyage to America. Our Stay in the United States. Ordered to the Pacific. Captain Zelyony. From New York to Rio de Janeiro and Back to Europe.; label: Chapter VI
title: 1865-66
pagenum: 52; title: Return to Music. Acquaintance with Borodin. My First Symphony. Balakireff and the Members of His Circle. The Performance of the First Symphony. The Musical Life of the Circle. Overture on Russian Themes. My First Song.; label: Chapter VII
title: 1866-67
pagenum: 64; title: Rognyeda. The circle's attitude toward Syeroff. Writing the Serbian Fantasy. Acquaintance with L. I. Shestakova. The Slavic concert. Growing intimacy with Musorgski. Acquaintance with P. I. Chaykovski. N. N. Lodyzhenski. Balakireff's trip to Prague. Writing Sadko and songs. Analysis of Sadko.; label: Chapter VIII
title: 1867-68
pagenum: 74; title: Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. Berlioz. The Circle's Achievements in Composition. Soirées at Dargomyzhski's. Acquaintance with the Purgold Family. Writing of Antar and First Thought of Pskovityanka (The Maid of Pskov). The Popular Concert. Analysis of Antar. Trip to Visit Lodyzhenski. Composing Pskovityanka.; label: Chapter IX
title: 1868-70
pagenum: 89; title: Musorgski's Wedding. Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. Death of Dargomyzhski. Nizhegorodtsy and William Ratcliff at the Mariinski Theatre. Boris Godunoff. Concerts of the Free Music School. Gedeonoff's Mlada. Completing the Orchestration of The Stone Guest. Songs.; label: Chapter X
title: 1870-71
pagenum: 99; title: Orchestration of Pskovityanka. Entering on Professional Duties at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.; label: Chapter XI
title: 1871-73
pagenum: 105; title: Illness and Death of My Brother. Living with Musorgski. Difficulties with the Censor about Pskovityanka. N. K. Krabbe. Production of The Stone Guest. Marriage and Trip Abroad. Production of Pskovityanka and Scenes from Boris Godunoff. Symphony in C-Major. Appointment to the Post of Inspector of Music Bands of the Naval Department. Study of Wind Instruments.; label: Chapter XII
title: 1873-75
pagenum: 119; title: Début as Conductor. Musorgski. His Khovanshchina and Sorochinskaya Yarmarka (The Fair at Sorochintsy). Operatic Prize Contest. Trip to Nikolayeff and the Crimea. Studying Harmony and Counterpoint. Directorship of the Free Music School.; label: Chapter XIII
title: 1875-76
pagenum: 135; title: A Capella Choruses. Concerts of the Free Music School. A. Lyadoff and G. Dütsch. Collections of Russian Songs. The Pagan Sun-cult. Resumption of Meetings with Balakireff. The Sextet and the Quintet. Editing the Scores of Glinka. Revision of Pskovityanka.; label: Chapter XIV
title: 1876-77
pagenum: 152; title: Various Compositions. The Fate of the Sextet and of the Quintet. Three Concerts of the Free Music School. Borodin's Second Symphony. The Beginnings of May Night. Prize Contest for Choral Compositions. Soirées of the Free Music School. Our Musical Circle. Borodin's Home Life. Overture and Entr'actes to Pskovityanka.; label: Chapter XV
title: 1877-79
pagenum: 167; title: Beginning to Compose May Night. A. Lyadoff. Paraphrases. Proposed Trip to Paris. Completion of May Night; Its Characteristics. Borodin and Musorgski. Concerts of the Free Music School. First Trip to Moscow. Compositions to Commemorate the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Tsar's Reign. Beginning to Write The Fairy-tale. The Russian Quartet. Work on Prince Igor. Borodin at His Summer Home.; label: Chapter XVI
title: 1879-80
pagenum: 185; title: Production of May Night. Opinions About It. Concerts of the Free Music School. Balakireff. Lyeonova and Musorgski. My Second Visit to Moscow. Beginning of Snyegoorochka. Krooshenski. Sasha Glazunoff.; label: Chapter XVII
title: 1880-81
pagenum: 196; title: The Summer at Stelyovo. Composing Snyegoorochka. Completion of Skazka (Fairy-tale). Analysis of Snyegoorochka.; label: Chapter XVIII
title: 1881-82
pagenum: 207; title: Skazka (Fairy-tale). Concert of the Free Music School. Death of Musorgski. Resignation from Directorship of the Free Music School. Trip to the South. Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. Production of Snyegoorochka. The Critics. Balakireff's Return to the Free Music School. Glazunoff's First Symphony. Our Circle. Work on Khovanshchina. Visit to Moscow. Acquaintanceship with M. P. Byelyayeff. Noch' na Lysoy Gorye (A Night on Bald Mount). Concerto for the Piano. Tamara.; label: Chapter XIX
title: 1883-86
pagenum: 223; title: Court Chapel. The Coronation. Organizing the Instrumental and the Precentors' Classes. Abolition of the Post of Inspector of Naval Bands. Byelyayeff's Fridays. A. Lyadoff's Marriage. Textbook of Harmony. Byelyayeff-Publisher. Rehearsal at the Pyetropavlovski School. Revision of Symphony in C-Major. Beginning of Russian Symphony Concerts. Trip to the Caucasus.; label: Chapter XX
title: 1886-88
pagenum: 237; title: Russian Symphony Concerts. Fantasy for the Violin. Death of Borodin. Balakireff's Circle and Byelyayeff's Compared. Orchestrating Prince Igor. Composition of Capriccio, and Its Performance. Shekherazada. Easter Overture.; label: Chapter XXI
title: 1888-92
pagenum: 251; title: Production of Der Ring des Nibelungen. The Polonaise from Boris Godunoff with New Orchestration. Russian Symphony Concerts. Beginning of Mlada. Trip to Paris. Completion of the Sketch of Mlada and Its Orchestration. Trip to Brussels. Domestic Misfortunes. Quarter-of-a-century Jubilee. New Tendencies in Byelyayeff's Circle. Production of Prince Igor. Production of Mlada Does Not Take Place. Revision of Maid of Pskov. Re-orchestrating of Sadko. Acquaintanceship with Yastryebtseff.; label: Chapter XXII
title: 1892-93
pagenum: 264; title: Studying Aesthetics and Philosophy. Production of Mlada. Yolanta. 'Friendly' Dinner. Weariness and Ill-health. Production of Snyegoorochka in Moscow. Altani. May Night on a Private Stage. Leoncavallo. Safonoff. Impressions of Visit to Moscow. Russian Symphony Concerts. Krooshevski. Ruslan and Lyudmila Anniversary.; label: Chapter XXIII
title: 1893-95
pagenum: 283; title: Quartet Prize Competition. Decision to Leave the Chapel. Summer at Yalta. Chaykovski's Death and the Sixth Symphony. Trip to Odessa. My Return to Composing. Beginning of Christmas Eve. Summer. Vyechasha. Continuation of Christmas Eve and Beginning of Sadko. Death of Rubinstein. Trip to Kiyeff. Pskovityanka at the Society of Musical Gatherings. Censorship Difficulties with Christmas Eve. Composing the Opera Sadko. Byel'ski.; label: Chapter XXIV
title: 1895-97
pagenum: 301; title: Orchestrating Sadko. Production and Adventures of Christmas Eve. Work on Boris and Completing Sadko. Boris at the Society of Musical Gatherings. Russian Symphony Concerts and Glazunoff. The Operas Mlada, Christmas Eve and Sadko Compared. Writing Songs. Beginning of Mozart and Salieri.; label: Chapter XXV
title: 1897-99
pagenum: 312; title: Sadko at S. I. Mamontoff's Private Opera. Vyera Sheloga. The Tsar's Bride. Russian Symphony Concert. Snyegoorochka at the Mariinski Theatre. The Young Composers of Moscow. Tsar Saltan. Lay of Olyeg the Prophetic. S. I. Taneyeff.; label: Chapter XXVI
title: 1899-1901
pagenum: 326; title: Beginning of Servilia. May Night at the Frankfurt Opera House. Trip to Brussels. The Tsar's Bride on a Private Stage in St. Petersburg. Composing and Orchestrating Servilia. Sadko at the Imperial Opera. Tsar Saltan on a Private Stage in Moscow. Resignation from Conductorship of Russian Symphony Concerts. 35th Anniversary. Various Operatic Plans.; label: Chapter XXVII
title: 1901-05
pagenum: 336; title: Composing the Prelude-Cantata From Homer and Kashchey the Deathless. Vyera Sheloga and The Maid of Pskov at the Grand Theatre in Moscow. Composing Pan Voyevoda. New Orchestration of The Stone Guest. Servilia at the Mariinski Theatre. Kashchey on a Private Stage in Moscow. Composing The Story of Kityezh. Sheloga and Pskovityanka at the Mariinski Theatre. Tsar Saltan on a Private Stage. Byelyayeff's Death and His Last Will. Pan Voyevoda and Servilia on Private Stages. Boris Godunoff at the Mariinski Theatre. Death of Laroche.; label: Chapter XXVIII
title: 1905-06
pagenum: 346; title: Disturbances Among Student-Youth. Performance of Kashchey in St. Petersburg. Text-book of Instrumentation. Pan Voyevoda in Moscow. Aryenski's Death. Affairs at the Conservatory. Revival of Snyegoorochka. Concerts: Ziloti, Russian Symphony and Russian Musical Society. Additions to the Score of Boris Godunoff. Musorgski's Wedding. Summer of 1906.; label: Appendix I
title: Three Letters of Mme. L. I. Shestakova
pagenum: 359; label: Appendix II
title: Five Subscription Concerts of the Free Music School
pagenum: 361; label: Appendix III
title: Concert of February 3, 1876, at the Town Council Hall
pagenum: 364; label: Appendix IV
title: Concert of March 23, 1876, at the Town Council Hall
pagenum: 365; label: Appendix V
title: Two Concerts of June 22, and 29, 1889, at the Paris Universal Exposition
pagenum: 366; label: Appendix VI
title: Two Open Letters of Rimsky-Korsakoff; label: a
title: To the Editor of the Newspaper, Roos'
pagenum: 368; label: b
title: To the Director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory
pagenum: 369; label: Appendix VII
title: Rimsky-Korsakoff's Open Letter to the Directorate of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (March 24, 1905)
pagenum: 371; title: Index
pagenum: 375