Fantasy on Serbian Themes

Fantasy on Serbian Themes

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his Fantasia on Serbian Themes, Op. 6, in 1867. Mily Balakirev conducted the first performed of this piece in May of that year. It is also known as the "Serbian Fantasy".

The Fantasy was actually Balakirev's idea for the young Rimsky-Korsakov to compose.Rimsky-Korsakov, "My Musical Life", 71.] He requested the piece for a concert of pan-Slavonic music he had planned for May 24, 1867, [Abraham, Gerald, ed. Stankey Sadie, "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", 20 vols. (London: MacMillian, 1980), vol. 16, 28.] programming his "Czech Overture" on the same billing. [Rimsky-Korsakov, 73.] Balakirev also produced the Serbian themes for Rimsky-Korsakov to use in his composition.Rimsky-Korsakov, "My Musical Life", 71.] Rimsky-Korsakov confessed in his autobiography that it was not any feeling of nationalism or pan-Slavism that prompted him to write the "Fantasy", but the beauty of the themes themselves.Rimsky-Korsakov, "My Musical Life", 71.] Nevertheless, Balakirev liked the piece, which Rimsky-Korsakov had written rapidly.Rimsky-Korsakov, "My Musical Life", 71.]

A March 1868 review of the "Fantasy" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in which he also mentioned Rimsky-Korsakov's First Symphony found favour within the Balakirev circle.Brown, David, "Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874" (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978), 129-130.] Tchaikovsky mentioned the symphony's "charming orchestration ... its structural novelty, and most of all by the freshness of its purely Russian harmonic turns ... immediately [showing] Mr. Rimsky-Korsakov to be a remarkable symphonic talent."Brown, David, "Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874" (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978), 129-130.] Tchaikovsky was already acquainted with Balakirev and was working with him on his fantasy overture "Romeo and Juliet" The review opened the door for him to meet the other members of "The Five" face-to-face the following month. [Brown, 130.]

In 1887 Rimsky-Korsakov revised the piece to prepare it for a new edition undertaken by Mitrofan Belyayev's publishing firm. [Rimsky-Korsakov, 299.]

ources

* Brown, David, "Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874" (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978). ISBN 0-393-07535-2.
*Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, "Letoppis Moyey Muzykalnoy Zhizni" (St. Petersburg, 1909), published in English as "My Musical Life" (New York: Knopf, 1925, 3rd ed. 1942). ISBN n/a.

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