1. The Romantic Russians Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( )
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( )
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff ( )

2. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Professor of theory with
many important students
including Stravinsky & Prokofiev
Officer in the Russian navy
Exoticism
Greatest Hits:
Scheherazade
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Capriccio Espagnole
(4:00)

3. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Called the Dostoyevsky of music
because compositions depict the insulted
and the injured.
Thought of as the most superior composer,
but was revised by fellow composers to the
point of changing his music
Best compositions are songs and the
opera “Boris Godunov” but biggest hits
are:
-Pictures at an Exhibition
-Night on Bald Mountain
(4:24)
(Bald)

5. Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Rooted in Russian musical tradition
Piano virtuoso
Immigrated to United States after the
Russian Revolution. He became extremely
homesick, and his compositional output
declined.
Extremely large hands which made for greater complexity
Greatest hits:
Piano Concerto No. 2
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Concerto 2:
Paganini: (0:53)

6. Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Born in Munich, educated from
young age by court musicians.
Age 18- Worked as conductor
Marriage
Composition in typical romantic
style until from Alexander Ritter
influenced him to abandon his
conservative style

7. Tone Poem
Piece of orchestral music in one movement in which some extramusical program provides a narrative or illustrative element. This programme may come from a poem, a story or novel, a painting, or another source.
Used previously by Liszt and Smetana, but Strauss perfected the genre is and most associated with it. (late 1800’s)
Famous Tone Poems by Strauss include:
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
A Hero's Life
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

8. Richard Strauss ( )
End of century, turned his attention to opera:
Salome
Elektra