- Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov
Andrey Nikolayevich Rimsky-Korsakov (October 17, 1878-May 23, 1940) was a Russian musicologist and son of the great Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Though growing up in a musical family he was encouraged in musical pursuits, playing cello in the family string quartet, he did not pursue music as a career until late in his life. Rimsky-Korsakov studied philosophy at university and went on to teach the subject in gymnasiums until 1912, …
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, also "Nikolay", "Nicolai", and "Rimsky-Korsakoff", (March 6 (N.S. March 18), 1844 - June 8 (N.S. June 21) 1908) was a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, and for his extraordinary skill in orchestration, which may have been influenced by his synesthesia.
- Galina Vishnevskaya
Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. Vishnevskaya was born in Leningrad. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 singing operetta. After a year studying with Vera Nikolayeva, she won a competition held by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (with Rachmaninoff's song "O, Do Not Grieve" and Verdi's aria "O patria mia" from "Aida") in 1952.
- Anton Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky (July 12, [OS 30 June] 1861, Novgorod – February 25 [OS February 12], 1906 Perkijarvi, Finland), was a Russian Romantic composer and music professor born in Novgorod, Russia. Arensky had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by age nine. His father and mother moved to St. Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, as a student of Rimsky-Korsakov.
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (January 28, 1935) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and teacher.
- Rita Streich
Rita Streich was one of the most significant coloratura sopranos of the post-war period. Rita Streich moved to Germany with her parents during her childhood, where she grew up bilingual, something that was extremely helpful during her later career. Among her teachers were Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Erna Berger, and Maria Ivogün. Her debut as an opera singer was during the Second World War at the Stadttheater (city theatre) of Ústí nad Labem in Bohemia, …
- Albert Coates
Albert Coates (April 23, 1882 - December 11, 1953) was an Anglo-Russian conductor and composer. Coates was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the youngest of seven sons of an English father and a Russian mother. He studied at the conservatory in Leipzig, where his greatest teacher was Artur Nikisch. He worked for a time at Semperoper Dresden, and became conductor at St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre. He escaped with considerable difficulty from Russia in April 1919.
- Alexander Serov
Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Александр Николаевич Серов in Cyrillic; Aleksandr Nikolaevič Serov in transliteration) (11/23 Jan. 1820- 20 Jan./1 Feb. 1871 was a Russian composer and music critic. He was also the father of the painter Valentin Serov. He was not only one of the most important music critics in Russia during the 1850s and 1860s, …
- Eduard Nápravník
Eduard Frantsovitch Nápravník (Russian: Эдуард Францович Направник, August 24 1839, Býšť, Bohemia - November 23 1916, Petrograd) was a Czech conductor and composer, who settled in Russia and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life as the principal conductor of the Imperial Russian Opera in Saint Petersburg for many decades. In that capacity, he conducted the premieres of many operas by Russian composers, …
- Fyodor Stravinsky
Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky was a Russian-Ukrainian bass opera singer and actor. He was the father of Igor Stravinsky and the grandfather of Soulima Stravinsky. Stravinsky started his career in Kiev before moving to St Petersburg, where he sang at the Mariinsky Theatre for 26 years, from 1876 to 1902. He was hailed as the successor to Osip Petrov and was renowned for his outstanding dramatic talent as an actor. Considered the leading bass at the Imperial Opera, …
- August de Boeck
Julianus Marie August de Boeck was a Belgian composer, organist and music pedagogue. From 1880 he studied organ at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels under Alphonse Mailly from whom he became an assistant until 1902. In 1889 he met the young Paul Gilson who became his close friend, and, despite their same age, his teacher for orchestration and his motivator for composition. He became an organist at various churches in Belgian villages (1892-1894 in Merchtem, …
- Sergei Lyapunov
Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Yaroslavl, November 30, 1859 - Paris, November 8, 1924) was a Russian composer. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, in Yaroslavl when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers went to live in the greater town of Nizhny Novgorod. There the lads were taught at the grammar school, and the musically gifted Sergei joined the classes of the newly formed local branch of the Russian Musical Socicty.
- Emil Cooper
Emil Albertovich Cooper, also known as Emil Kuper was a Russian conductor and violinist, of English ancestry. He graduated music school in Odessa as violinist and composer. Until 1898 he played recitals as violinist and learned conducting independently. He also studied conducting with Arthur Nikisch. In 1899 together with Leonid Sobinov and Feodor Chaliapin he performed on tour around Russia cities as operatic conductor.
- Osip Petrov
Osip Afanasievich Petrov was a Russian operatic bass-baritone of great range and renown. He started his career by singing in a church chorus, then worked in Russian provincial theaters (including Poltava, where he worked together with Mikhail Shchepkin). From 1830 until his death in 1878 he worked for the Mariinsky Theatre.
- Georgy Catoire
Georgy L'vovich Katuar (Georges Catoire) (born Moscow, April 27, 1861, died Moscow, May 21, 1926) was a Russian composer of French heritage. He studied piano in Berlin with Karl Klindworth, a friend of Richard Wagner's. It was from this piano teacher that he learned to appreciate the works of Wagner. Catoire would become one of the few Russian Wagnerite composers, joining the Wagner society in 1879.
- Apollon Maykov
Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (June 4, 1821, Moscow - March 20, 1897, Petersburg) was a Russian poet. Born into the artistic family of Nikolay Apollonovich Maykov, a painter and an academic. In 1834 the family moved to Petersburg. In 1837-1841 Maykov studied law at the Petersburg University. At first, he was attracted to painting, but soon dedicated his life to poetry. His first publications appeared in 1840 in the "Odessa Almanac".
- Leff Pouishnoff
Leff Pouishnoff (b. Kiev or Odessa, 11 October 1891, d. 1959) was a Russian pianist and composer, especially associated with the performance of Chopin, whose career was largely in the west. Pouishnoff was drawn to the piano as a young child, and, having acquired some aptitude before the age of ten, gave two public concerts. His parents, not wishing him to be exploited, discouraged this, …
- Aleksey Koltsov
Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov (October 15, 1808 - October 19, 1842) was a Russian poet which has been called a Russian Burns. His poems, frequently placed in the mouth of women, stylize peasant-life songs and idealize agricultural labour. He was born in Voronezh as a son of a cattle merchant. Having studied for less than two years at a local school (1818-1820), Aleksey quit at the insistence of his father who wanted his help with his business.
- John Kenneth Graham
American composer John Kenneth Graham (born July 261955 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana), studied at Southeastern Louisiana University and Louisiana State University, and writes orchestral tableaux of American legend and folklore. A traditionalist, his most representative works include the first four symphonies of a nine-symphony cycle. Other works include a "Festival Mass in C Minor" for choir and chamber orchestra, "First Piano Concerto", …
- Alexander Taneyev
Alexander Sergeievich Taneyev (January 17, 1850 - February 7, 1918) was a Russian composer of the late Romantic era, specifically of the nationalist school. Among his best works were three string quartets, believed to be composed by him between 1898-1900. The name Taneyev (spelled several different ways including Taneiev, Tanaiev, Taneieff, and Taneyeff in English due to the difficulty of transliterating the Cyrillic alphabet) is not well known outside of Russia.
- Rimsky Korsakov
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Alexander Korsakov
Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian General remembered as an unlucky assistant to Alexander Suvorov during his Swiss expedition of 1799-1800. Korsakov entered military service early, and fought in the Russo-Turkish War in 1788 and 1789, and then in the Russo-Swedish War. He subsequently became a major-general of the Semenovsky regiment of the Leib Guard, assigned to accompany the Count of Artois to England.
- Miele
Here are a few of my products - At some point I'll get a proper product list up and some links and contact info and prices and all kinda stuff... But not today!
- Julia
I'm not really a swinger. I'm just trying to scare all the creepies away from hitting on me. Maybe that wasn't the right way to go.
- Mark McDonald
I am Mark. I know who I am, I know what I expect from myself, and I have grown to expect the same from others around me. Call it harsh or picky, but I would have it no other way. If you are a person who needs to understand somebody to truly like them, you will not fare well with me. Many people have tried, including myself and several doctors, but all have failed. My advice to you would be not to bother.
- James Aitchison
CONGRATULATIONS!! You have found the myspace page of JAMES AITCHISON!
- Leon
I like seeing people smiling to themselves when they walk down the street. I'm in The Fucking Wizards. Also, nature is brilliant. I recently went to America where I saw loads of great nature: like some cool hawks and a roadrunner.
- Bob Wilder
Find a memory of an aquatic life here: www.amiel-music.com.
- Fiona
I live in Toronto and work in the film industry. My joie de vivre is my Jack Russell terrier, Molly. She makes me laugh and makes me go to the park everyday... rain or shine. We've been together since she was 8 weeks old and she has been with me through thick and thin. I used to work as a makeup artist and still do makeup on set from time to time because I love it. During my teenage years in Halifax, I was a lead singer in a few hard rock / heavy metal bands.
- Courtney Michelle
I'm an adventurous, empathetic world traveller. I study languages and love learning about new cultures and different perspectives. I write poetry, read a lot and write travel journals whenever I'm on the road. I own a salon and practice the art of hair on my wonderful and devoted clients.
- Richard Stuart
This is the Yeti Crab, quite possibly the weirdest damn thing ever. And did you know that the land Yeti has the power of invisibility? It is also rumored that Tibetan monks have used meditation as a way to lure the land Yeti. They are attracted to the concentrated brain waves which they are very sensitive to.
- Bryan Buckley
Well Im 20 years old and in the Navy. Only a couple of years from Leaving too.Sadly, but I have to move on to bigger and better things.A future in the civilian sector.Exciting huh?Im a funny guy, I feel a sense of humor goes a long way in life.Im very optimistic and easy going, though I pretty much keep to myself cause Im a little shy......very shy I guess I could say. Its hard living in Virginia Beach and not knowing anybody but who you work with.
- Albert
"It was time, I thought, for an agonizing reappraisal of the whole scene....The decision to flee came suddenly. Or maybe not. Maybe Iâd planned it all along." - Hunter S. Thompson.
- William
My hat is old. My teeth are gold. I have a bird I like to hold. My shoe is off. My foot is cold. My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold. My hat is old. My teeth are gold. And now my story is all told.
- Jason Thompson
I adore women who are comfortable in their own skin. I'm interested in the gray areas of the human experience, when our own thoughts and situations require a degree of action that may not possible, or plausible or even desirable. I believe in the ontological riddles of our time and people who are interested in discovering a certain degree of peace within themselves. I'm interested in linguistic pyrotechnics and plain, raw truth.
- Tim Swanson