Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me! — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil,… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
