Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (died 1908)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian composer (1844–1908)

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…