Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade, Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights.
Scheherazade by Léon Bakst (before 1917)
The Blue Sultana by Léon Bakst
Mikhail Fokine and Vera Fokina in the Ballets Russes production of Scheherazade
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Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
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 fifteen operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy-tale and folk subjects.
Rimsky-Korsakov's birthplace in Tikhvin
Rimsky-Korsakov family coat of arms
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1856
Rimsky-Korsakov in 1866, when he was a michman in the Russian Navy