Biography
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born in 1844 in Tikhvin and was the master of the Russian fairy-tale opera. His colourful orchestrations set standards. Among his fifteen operas are masterpieces such as Sadko and The Golden Cockerel. As a professor he taught Stravinsky and Prokofiev. He died in 1908 in Lyubensk.
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