{"product_id":"nicolai-rimski-korsakov-flight-of-the-bumblebee-jose-d-aragon","title":"NICOLAI RIMSKI-KORSAKOV -Flight of the Bumblebee - JOSE D´ARAGON","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e NICOLAI RIMSKI-KORSAKOV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best- known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy-tale and folk subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eRimsky-Korsakov believed in developing a nationalistic style of classical music, as did his fello composer Mily Balakirev and the critic Vladimir Stasov. This style employed Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as musical orientalism, and eschewed traditional Western compositional methods. Rimsky-Korsakov appreciated Western musical techniques after he became a professor of musical composition, harmony, and orchestration at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1871. He undertook a rigorous three-year program of self- education and became a master of Western methods, incorporating them alongside the influences of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eMikhail Glinka and fellow members of The Five. Rimsky-Korsakov's techniques of composition and orchestration were further enriched by his exposure to the works of Richard Wagner. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eFlight of the Bumblebee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\"Flight of the Bumblebee\" (Russian: Полёт шмеля) is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov (1844–1908) for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. Its composition is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee. Despite the piece's being a rather incidental part of the opera, it is today one of the more familiarclassical works because of its frequent use in popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe piece closes Act III, Tableau 1, during which the magic Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon Saltanovich (the Tsar's son) into an insect so that he can fly away to visit his father (who does not know that he is alive). Although in the opera the Swan-Bird sings during the first part of the \"Flight\", her vocal line is melodically uninvolved and easily omitted; this feature, combined with the fact that the number decisively closes the scene, made easy extraction as an orchestral concerto piece possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Villa D'Aragon - Palacio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54106640187725,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/4120\/1997\/files\/ElVuelodelMoscardonjosed_aragon.jpg?v=1781423003","url":"https:\/\/onlineshop.villadearagon.de\/products\/nicolai-rimski-korsakov-flight-of-the-bumblebee-jose-d-aragon","provider":"Villa D'Aragon - Palacio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}