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Scheherazade (/ ʃ ə ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ z ɑː d,-d ə /) is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
Scheherazade/Shahrzad (on Persian) is a legendary Persian queen who is the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights. The story, which was written many hundreds of years ago, tells of a Persian king who married a young girl every night. At the end of every night he would send his new wife to have her head chopped off. He had already killed 3000 women in this way.
Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехеразада, romanized: Shekherazada, IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights).. This orchestral work combines two features typical of Russian music in general and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and an interest in the East, which figured greatly in the history of ...
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Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade is itself a story about a storyteller – one of the greatest of all, who inspired this exotic music. Although the composer himself was in two minds about how far he should stick to the stories of the Persian Princess, his preface at the top of the score sets out the bare bones of the 45 minutes of music which follow:
Scheherazade, orchestral suite by Russian composer Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov that was inspired by the collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian tales known as The Thousand and One Nights (or The Arabian Nights). Exemplary of the late 19th-century taste for program music—or, music with a story
Scheherazade, Op. 35 by Rimsky-Korsakov. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. Violin solo by Alexander Hilsberg. Recorded October 31 and November 1, 1947 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. If you listen closely to the last 25 seconds of the 4th movement, you can hear a dog bark. A microphone had been placed in an adjacent hallway to pick up more reverb from Mr. Hilsberg's violin and it also picked up the dog. Transfer from the original Columbia 78 rpm set MM- 772 by ...
May 12, 2007 · Storytellers of the Middle East have been retelling the tales of Sinbad and Aladdin. But according to legend, the first was a young bride named Scheherazade. Rimsky-Korsakov spins the tale in music.
Aug 27, 2019 · Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Context. When he was a boy, Rimsky-Korsakov’s imagination was hungry for travel. He was confined in his small Russian town until he was a teenager. He received letters from his older brother, Voin, who was in the Far East serving in the Navy and he fell in love with the seas he’d never even seen. For many years Rimsky-Korsakov wanted to be in the Navy, like his brother and other family members.
