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75 relations: Alexander Borodin, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Alexander Glazunov, Alexander II of Russia, Alexander III of Russia, Alexander Scriabin, Alexander Serov, Alexander Spendiaryan, American Five, Anatoly Lyadov, Antar (Rimsky-Korsakov), Anton Rubinstein, Belyayev circle, César Cui, Chemistry, Claude Debussy, Consecutive fifths, Cossacks, Dmitri Shostakovich, Franz Liszt, Gerald Abraham, Group of Eight (music), Heptatonic scale, Heterophony, Igor Stravinsky, Imperial Russian Navy, Interval (music), Islamey, Kashchey the Deathless, Leitmotif, Les Six, List of Russian composers, Lists of composers, Major scale, Maurice Ravel, Melisma, Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Lermontov, Mily Balakirev, Minor scale, Misogyny, Modest Mussorgsky, Morale, Nicholas I of Russia, Nicholas II of Russia, Nikolai Lodyzhensky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Octatonic scale, Olivier Messiaen, ..., Orientalism, Pentatonic scale, Peoples of the Caucasus, Pictures at an Exhibition, Preobrazhensky Regiment, Prince Igor, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and The Five, Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera), Russian classical music, Sadko (opera), Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti, Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata form, Symphonic poem, Symphony No. 1 (Rimsky-Korsakov), The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Queen of Spades (opera), Tikhvin Cemetery, Tonic (music), Vladimir Stasov, Whole tone scale. Expand index (25 more) »
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (a; 12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist.
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Alexander Dargomyzhsky
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Даргомы́жский) was a 19th-century Russian composer.
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Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period.
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Alexander II of Russia
Alexander II (p; 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was the Emperor of Russia from the 2nd March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881.
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Alexander III of Russia
Alexander III (r; 1845 1894) was the Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from until his death on.
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Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Скря́бин; –) was a Russian composer and pianist.
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Alexander Serov
Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Серо́в, Saint Petersburg, – Saint Petersburg) was a Russian composer and music critic.
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Alexander Spendiaryan
Alexander Afanasyevich Spendiarov (Spendiaryan) (Ալեքսանդր Ստեփանոսի Սպենդիարյան, Александр Афанасьевич Спендиаров, November 1, 1871, Kakhovka, Russian Empire – May 7, 1928, Yerevan, Armenia) was an Armenian born in Russia, music composer, conductor, founder of Armenian national symphonic music and one of the patriarchs of Armenian classical music.
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American Five
The American Five is a collective name applied by some writers to the modernist American composers Charles Ives (1874–1954), John J. Becker (1886–1961), Wallingford Riegger (1885–1961), Henry Cowell (1897–1965), and Carl Ruggles (1876–1971).
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Anatoly Lyadov
Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov or Liadov (Анато́лий Константи́нович Ля́дов) was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor.
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Antar (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Antar is a composition for symphony orchestra in four movements by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (r) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
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Belyayev circle
The Belyayev circle (Беляевский кружок) was a society of Russian musicians who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 1885 and 1908, and whose members included Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, Vladimir Stasov, Anatoly Lyadov, Alexander Ossovsky, Witold Maliszewski, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Nikolay Sokolov, Alexander Winkler among others.
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César Cui
César Antonovich Cui (Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́; 13 March 1918) was a Russian composer and music critic of French, Polish and Lithuanian descent.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.
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Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.
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Consecutive fifths
In music, consecutive fifths, or parallel fifths, are progressions in which the interval of a perfect fifth is followed by a different perfect fifth between the same two musical parts (or voices): for example, from C to D in one part along with G to A in a higher part.
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Cossacks
Cossacks (козаки́, translit, kozaky, казакi, kozacy, Czecho-Slovak: kozáci, kozákok Pronunciations.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.
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Gerald Abraham
Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English-Jewish musicologist; he was President of the Royal Musical Association, 1970–74.
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Group of Eight (music)
The Group of Eight (also known by its Spanish name Grupo de los Ocho) was a group of Spanish composers and musicologists, including Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Julián Bautista, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo Pittaluga.
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Heptatonic scale
A heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches per octave.
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Heterophony
In music, heterophony is a type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy was the navy of the Russian Empire.
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Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.
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Islamey
Islamey: Oriental Fantasy (Исламей: Восточная фантасия), Op.
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Kashchey the Deathless
Kashchey the Deathless (italic, Kashchey bessmertnïy), aka Kashchey the Immortal, is a one-act opera in three scenes (styled a "little autumnal fairy tale") by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Leitmotif
A leitmotif or leitmotiv is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase"Kennedy (1987), Leitmotiv associated with a particular person, place, or idea.
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Les Six
"Les Six" is a name given to a group of six French composers who worked in Montparnasse.
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List of Russian composers
An alphabetical list of significant composers who were born in Russia or worked there for a significant time.
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Lists of composers
This is a list of lists of composers grouped by various criteria.
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Major scale
The major scale (or Ionian scale) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.
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Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
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Melisma
Melisma (Greek:, melisma, song, air, melody; from, melos, song, melody, plural: melismata) is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession.
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Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Mikhaíl Ivánovich Glínka) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.
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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ипполи́тов-Ива́нов; 28 January 1935) was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher.
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Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (p; –) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism.
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Mily Balakirev
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Ми́лий Алексе́евич Бала́кирев,; 2 January 1837 –)Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style.
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Minor scale
In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.
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Misogyny
Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj; –) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five".
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Morale
Morale, also known as esprit de corps, is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.
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Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I (r; –) was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855.
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Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II (r; 1868 – 17 July 1918), known as Saint Nicholas II of Russia in the Russian Orthodox Church, was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.
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Nikolai Lodyzhensky
Nikolai Nikolayevich Lodyzhensky (Russian: Николай Николаевич Лодыженский) was a Russian composer and diplomat.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (a; Russia was using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and are in the same style as the source from which they come.) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.
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Octatonic scale
An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale.
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century.
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Orientalism
Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern world).
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Peoples of the Caucasus
This article deals with the various ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region.
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an Exhibition (Картинки с выставки – Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане, Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane, "Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann"; Tableaux d'une exposition) is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.
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Preobrazhensky Regiment
The Preobrazhensky Lifeguard Regiment was one of the oldest and most elite guard regiments of the Imperial Russian Army.
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Prince Igor
Prince Igor (Князь Игорь, Knyaz' Igor') is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and The Five
In mid- to late-19th-century Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and a group of composers known as The Five had differing opinions as to whether Russian classical music should be composed following Western or native practices.
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Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)
Ruslan and Lyudmila (translit is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The opera is based on the 1820 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. The Russian libretto was written by Valerian Shirkov, Nestor Kukolnik and N. A. Markevich, among others. Pushkin's death in the famous duel prevented him from writing the libretto himself as planned. Today, the best-known music from the opera is its overture.
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Russian classical music
Russian classical music is a genre of classical music related to Russia's culture, people, or character.
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Sadko (opera)
Sadko (Садко, the name of the main character) is an opera in seven scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).
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Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti
The Vedomosti was the first newspaper printed in Russia.
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Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (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).
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.
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Sonata form
Sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation.
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Symphonic poem
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.
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Symphony No. 1 (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Symphony No.
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The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (italic, Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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The Queen of Spades (opera)
The Queen of Spades, Op.
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Tikhvin Cemetery
Tikhvin Cemetery (Тихвинское кладбище) is located at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Tonic (music)
In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of a diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music and traditional music.
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Vladimir Stasov
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov (sometimes transliterated as Stassov; Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ста́сов; 14 January 1824, Saint Petersburg – 23 October 1906, Saint Petersburg), son of Russian architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov (1769–1848), was probably the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime.
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Whole tone scale
In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole tone.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_(composers)
