Notes on the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Permissions and Credits xiii
5. Correspondence
6. The Professor and the Sea Princess: Letters of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel 3
7. Operas in Context
8. Rimsky-Korsakov, Snegurochka, and Populism 63
9. You, Mozart, Aren’t Worthy of Yourself ”: Aesthetic Discontents of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri 97
10. Orientalism and The Golden Cockerel
11. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and His Orient 145
12. The Golden Cockerel, Censored and Uncensored 177
13. Staging Defeat: The Golden Cockerel and the Russo-Japanese War 197
14. Colleagues and Disciples
15. St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Beginnings of Russian Musicology 223
16. How Stravinsky Stopped Being a Rimsky-Korsakov Pupil 249
17. Stylistic Turbulence: The Experience of the Rimsky-Korsakov School 277
18. Afterword
19. In Search of Beauty: Autocracy, Music, and Painting in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russia 301
20. Index 355
21. Notes on the Contributors 365
22. OTHER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS VOLUMES PUBLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BARD MUSIC FESTIVAL 368