"or dancers perform on stage. Rimsky-Korsakov made the following concert arrangement: After his death, A. Glazunov and M. Shteynberg (Steinberg) compiled the following orchestral suite: Efrem Zimbalist wrote ""Concert Phantasy on 'Le coq d'or""' for violin and piano based on themes from the suite. Marina Frolova-Walker points to ""The Golden Cockerel"" as the fore-runner of the anti-psychologistic and absurdist ideas which would culminate in such 20th century 'anti-operas' as Prokofiev's ""The Love for Three Oranges"" (1921) and Shostakovich's ""The Nose"" (1930). In this, his last opera, Rimsky-Korsakov had laid ""the foundation for modernist opera in Russia and beyond."" In 1978–79"
"The Tale of the Golden Cockerel The Tale of the Golden Cockerel () is the last fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary magazine ""Biblioteka dlya chteniya"" (""Library for Reading"") in 1835. While not officially based on any specific fairy tale, a number of similar stories were later revealed by scholars, most famously by Anna Akhmatova in her 1933 essay ""Pushkin's Last Fairy Tale"". Among the influences named were the ""Legend of the Arabian Astrologer"" from ""Tales of the Alhambra"" by Washington Irving, ""Der goldene Hahn"" (1785)"
"by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and ""Kaib"" (1792) by Ivan Krylov. In turn, all of them borrowed from the ancient Copts legend first translated by the French Arabist Pierre Vattier in 1666 using the 1584 manuscript from the collection of Cardinal Mazarin. The Tale of the Golden Cockerel The Tale of the Golden Cockerel () is the last fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary magazine ""Biblioteka dlya chteniya"" (""Library for Reading"") in 1835. While not officially based on any specific fairy tale, a number of similar stories"
"The Snow Maiden (play) The Snow Maiden (, Snegurochka) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1873 and first published in the September 1873 issue of ""Vestnik Evropy"". The idea of the play based on a fairytale about Snegurochka came to Ostrovsky in his Shchelykovo estate, the place he admired and almost worshipped, imagining it as a piece of wonderland here on Earth, saturated with the spirit of Old Rus with its heroic warriors and gentle, benevolent tsars. The play tells the story of an idyllic utopian kingdom ruled by the Berendei, a poet and an artist who believes"
"The Rider on the White Horse The Rider on the White Horse (German: Der Schimmelreiter) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm. It is his last complete work, first published in 1888, the year of his death. The novella is Storm's best remembered and most widely read work, and considered by many to be his masterpiece. It has been translated into English under titles ""The Dykemaster"", ""The Dikegrave"", and the most literal, ""The Rider on the White Horse"" (""Schimmel"" being the German word for a gray or white horse). The novella tells the story of Hauke Haien, allegedly related"
"The Bronze Horseman (poem) The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale ( ""Mednyy vsadnik: Peterburgskaya povest""', literally: ""The Copper Horseman"") is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824. While the poem was written in 1833, it was not published, in its entirety, until after his death as his work was under censorship due to the political nature of his other writings. Widely considered to be Pushkin's most successful narrative poem, ""The Bronze Horseman"" has had a lasting impact on Russian literature. It"
"Great Heritage"", most of which are still frequently sung today. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) is remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Little Match Girl"", and ""The Ugly Duckling"". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: ""The"
"The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (fairy tale) ""The Mistress of the Copper Mountain"" (), also known as ""The Queen of the Copper Mountain"" or ""The Mistress of the Copper Mine"", is a folk tale (the so-called ""skaz"") of the Ural region of Russia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the 11th issue of the ""Krasnaya Nov"" literary magazine in 1936 and later the same year as a part of the collection ""Prerevolutionary Folklore of the Urals"". It was later released as a part of ""The Malachite Casket"" collection on 28 January 1939. In 1944"
"in Pavel Bazhov's collection of the Ural Mountains folktales (also known as ""skaz"") called ""The Malachite Box"". The Mistress appears in the third ""skaz"", ""The Mistress of the Copper Mountain"" and in 9 other stories from the collection, including ""The Stone Flower"", ""The Manager's Boot-Soles"", ""Sochen and His Stones"". The Mistress of the Copper Mountain has the appearance of an extremely beautiful young woman with green eyes. Some of her more distinctive features include dark braided hair, ribbons from thin tinkling copper, and a gown that is made from malachite. She wears a diadem decorated with malachite and precious stones."
"celebrated in a German song by Rudolf Greintz in 1907, which was quickly translated into Russian and sung to a martial accompaniment. These lyrics mourned the fallen lying in their graves and threatened revenge. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also reacted to the war by composing the satirical opera ""The Golden Cockerel"", completed in 1907. Although it was ostensibly based on a verse fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin written in 1834, the authorities quickly realised its true target and immediately banned it from performance. The opera was premiered in 1909, after Rimsky-Korsakov's death, and even then with modifications required by the censors. Some"
"The Ice-Maiden ""The Ice-Maiden"" (""Iisjomfruen"", or ""Isjomfruen"" in contemporary Danish) is an 1861 fairy tale (short story) by the Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen. The first English translation was published by King and Baird in 1863. In ""The Ice-Maiden"", written towards the end of his career, Hans Christian Andersen tells the tale of Rudy, a boy who lost both his parents and goes to live with his uncle. The reader is first introduced to Rudy as he sells toy houses made by his grandfather. Rudy grows up to become a skilled mountain climber and huntsman. He has fallen in love"
"The Snow Queen ""The Snow Queen"" () is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 in ""New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection. 1845."" () The story centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kai. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories. It is regularly included in selected tales and collections of his work and is frequently reprinted in illustrated storybook editions for children. ""The Snow Queen"" is a tale told in seven 'stories' ():"
"The King of the Copper Mountains The King of The Copper Mountains is a children's novel by Paul Biegel, and was originally published as ""Het Sleutelkruid"" in the Netherlands in 1964, where it won the Gouden Griffel, the award for the best children's book of the year. An English translation by the author with illustrations by Gilliam Hume was published in 1968 by J. M. Dent. It was reprinted by Franklin Watts in 1969, by Collins Armada in 1971, 1973 and 1989, and by Fontana Lions in 1980 and 1987. The book was also translated into German, Afrikaans, Danish, and"
"Four of them—""The Water Goblin"", ""The Noon Witch"", ""The Golden Spinning Wheel"" and ""The Wild Dove""—are based on poems from Karel Jaromír Erben's ""Kytice"" (""Bouquet"") collection of fairy tales. In these four poems, Dvořák assigns specific musical themes for important characters and events in the drama. For ""The Golden Spinning Wheel"", Dvořák arrived at these themes by setting lines from the poems to music. He also follows Liszt and Smetana's example of thematic transformation, metamorphosing the king's theme in ""The Golden Spinning Wheel"" to represent the wicked stepmother and also the mysterious, kindly old man found in the tale. Macdonald"
"Ivanovich Kuprin. Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin wrote ""Dry Valley"" (1912), which is considered to be influenced by gothic literature. In her monograph on the subject, Muireann Maguire writes, ""The centrality of the Gothic-fantastic to Russian fiction is almost impossible to exaggerate, and certainly exceptional in the context of world literature."" Further contributions to the Gothic genre were seen in the work of the Romantic poets. Prominent examples include Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Christabel"" as well as John Keats' ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" (1819) and ""Isabella, or the Pot of Basil"" (1820)"
"Robert Peel"" (London, 1856); A Financial, Statistical and Monetary History of England from 1688 (London, 1847); ""Matter for Materialists"" (London, 1870); ""The Eve of St Mark"", a Romance of Venice; and three dramas, ""The Statue Wife"", ""Diocletian"" and ""Caius Marius"", in addition to some fishing songs, the folk song ""The Snows They Melt The Soonest"" and many contributions to various newspapers and periodicals. His song writing and poetry were generally written as a joint collaboration with his inseparable friend Robert Roxby. For fuller details see under Robert Roxby In 1857 he published an open letter to the Duke of Northumberland"
"The Snow Women The Snow Women is a sword and sorcery novella by Fritz Leiber, recounting the early history of Fafhrd, a future member of the adventurous duo, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1971 (although Leiber withdrew it in favor of ""Ill Met in Lankhmar""), and finished second in the annual ""Locus"" poll for short fiction. First published in 1970 in ""Fantastic"" magazine, it is in the nature of a prequel, as Leiber had by that time been chronicling the pair's adventures for thirty years. The story forms part two"
"remembered first and foremost for his fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1872 not only for children but for adults too. Among the most popular are ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"", ""The Snow Queen"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Thumbelina"", ""The Little Match Girl"", and ""The Ugly Duckling"". Considered to be the father of the modern fairytale, Andersen wrote a total of 156 fairy stories, only 12 of which drew on folk tales. But Andersen also wrote a number of travel sketches, several novels including the well-received: ""The Improvisatore"" (1835), a series of poems, and his autobiography ""The Fairy Tale of My Life"""
"The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep ""The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep"" (Danish: ""Hyrdinden og Skorstensfejeren"") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale follows the romance between a china shepherdess and a china chimney sweep who are threatened by a carved mahogany satyr who wants the shepherdess for his wife. The tale was first published in April 1845 by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark. Two of China's figurines (a shepherdess and a chimney sweep) stand side by side on a table top. They are in love. Their romance is threatened, however,"
"Book of Masters"", a 2009 Russian language fantasy film, is loosely based on Bazhov's tales, mostly ""The Mistress of the Copper Mountain"" and ""The Stone Flower"". The 2012 opera ""The Malachite Casket"", based on ""The Mistress of the Copper Mountain"" and ""The Malachite Casket"", was created by Dmitry Batin. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (fairy tale) ""The Mistress of the Copper Mountain"" (), also known as ""The Queen of the Copper Mountain"" or ""The Mistress of the Copper Mine"", is a folk tale (the so-called ""skaz"") of the Ural region of Russia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It"
"Haugtussa (Grieg) Haugtussa, Op. 67, or ""The Mountain Maid"", is a song cycle for soprano and piano composed by Edvard Grieg in 1895 and published in 1898. It is the only song cycle in his entire output. The text was written by the Norwegian writer Arne Garborg, an excerpt from his book of poetry ""Haugtussa"". It tells the story of Haugtussa, a young herding girl, and her first love affair with a boy, her first heartache. Both the lyrics, which brim over with imagery of gurgling brooks and tasty blueberries, and the music that mimics this imagery, intertwine the main"
"The Golden Ass (Machiavelli) L'asino (also called L'asino d'oro; English: The Golden Ass) was an unfinished satirical poem of eight chapters written by the Italian political scientist and writer Niccolò Machiavelli in 1517. A modernized version of Apuleius' ""The Golden Ass"" (rather than a translation of it), it is written in terza rima. It also concerns the theme of metamorphosis, and contains grotesque and allegorical episodes. In the poem, the author meets a beautiful herdswoman surrounded by Circe's herd of beasts (Canto 2). After spending a night of love with him, she explains the characteristics of the animals in her"
"The Mistress of the Copper Mountain The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (), also known as The Malachite Maid, is a legendary creature from Slavic mythology and a Russian fairy tale character, the mountain spirit from the legends of the Ural miners and the Mistress of the Ural Mountains of Russia. In the national folktales and legends, she is depicted as an extremely beautiful green-eyed young woman in a malachite gown or as a lizard with a crown. She has been viewed as the patroness of miners, the protector and owner of hidden underground riches, the one who can either"
"Maria Eklund Maria Eklund (born 1973) is a Russian-born Swedish conductor. In 2005, she became the first woman to conduct an orchestra at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, breaking the barriers of what so far was a strictly male area of expertise. She conducted ""The Golden Cockerel"" by Rimsky-Korsakov. Eklund was born in Moscow in a family of Russian intelligentsia. Her paternal grandmother was an accomplished pianist who graduated from The Moscow Conservatoire at the same time as the pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Her paternal grandfather is a physics scientist who worked at The Kurtchatov Institute in Moscow before"
"The Snow Bogatyr The Snow Bogatyr (""Снежный богатырь"" in Cyrillic; ""Snežnyj bogatyr""' in transliteration) is an opera-fairytale for children in one act, two tableaux, by César Cui, composed in 1905. The libretto was written by a school teacher named Marina Stanislavovna Polʹ, using Russian folk tales. The title can be translated also as ""The Snow Hero"" or ""The Snow Knight"", but these renderings do not quite convey the notion of a Bogatyr. As with the composer's other children's operas, this work was meant for children to perform in, as well as to watch. The opera was premiered on 15 May"
"some information about the life, industry and culture of the Urals and which the author tried to include into every edition of the collection. Later versions contained more than 40 stories. Not all stories are equally popular nowadays. The most popular tales were written between 1936 and 1939: ""The Mistress of the Copper Mountain"" and its continuation ""The Malachite Casket"", ""The Stone Flower"" and its continuation ""The Master Craftsman"", ""Silver Hoof"", ""Cat's Ears"", ""Sinyushka's Well"", ""The Manager's Boot-Soles"". Among the later stories, ""A Fragile Twig"" (1940), ""The Fire-Fairy"" (1940), ""Tayutka's Mirror"" (1941), ""Ivanko Krylatko"" (1943), ""That Spark of Life"" (1943)"
"kind and nature. She compares the character with Mephistopheles, because a human needs to wager his soul with her in order to get the ultimate knowledge, however, the Mistress does not force anyone to abandon their moral values, and therefore ""is not painted in dark colours"". Lyudmila Skorino believed that she represented the nature of the Urals, which inspires a creative person with its beauty. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (), also known as The Malachite Maid, is a legendary creature from Slavic mythology and a Russian fairy tale character, the mountain spirit"
"(the goat) in winter. Perhaps the most successful collector of folk tales was the novelist and storyteller Ion Creangă, who in very picturesque language, shaped into their now-classic form stories like ""Harap Alb"" (roughly, ""The White Prince"") or ""Fata babei şi fata moşului"" (roughly, ""The old woman's girl and the old man's girl""). Also, the poet Vasile Alecsandri published the most successful version of the ballad ""Mioriţa"" (""The Little Ewe""), a sad, philosophical poem, centered on a simple action: the plot by two shepherds to kill a third shepherd because they envied his wealth. Another prolific editor of folk tales"
"music became the primary source for the younger generation composers. A group that called itself ""The Mighty Five"", headed by Balakirev (1837–1910) and including Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Mussorgsky (1839–81), Borodin (1833–87) and César Cui (1835–1918), proclaimed its purpose to compose and popularize Russian national traditions in classical music. Among the Mighty Five's most notable compositions were the operas ""The Snow Maiden"" (""Snegurochka""), ""Sadko"", ""Boris Godunov"", ""Prince Igor"", ""Khovanshchina"", and symphonic suite ""Scheherazade"". Many of the works by Glinka and the Mighty Five were based on Russian history, folk tales and literature, and are regarded as masterpieces of romantic nationalism in music."
"fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. These included ""Golyi korol"" (""The Emperor's New Clothes"") (1934), ""Krasnaya Shapochka"" (""Little Red Riding Hood"") (1936), ""Zolushka"" (""Cinderella"") (1938), ""Snezhnaya Koroleva"" (""The Snow Queen"", after Hans Christian Andersen) (1938), ""Tyen"" (""The Shadow"", after Hans Christian Andersen) (1940), ""Drakon"" (""The Dragon"", an original) (1944), and ""Obyknovennoye Chudo"" (""An Ordinary Miracle"") (1956). At the beginning of World War II, Schwartz wrote ""Under the Linden Trees of Berlin"" (1941) with Zoschenko. During the war, he wrote ""One Night"" and ""The Far Country"". After the war, Shvarts, wrote ""An Ordinary Miracle"" and ""The Tale of the Brave Soldiers""."
"folkloristic studies of Alexander Afanasyev. That author's standard work, ""The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs"", became Rimsky-Korsakov's pantheistic bible. The composer first applied Afanasyev's ideas in ""May Night"", in which he helped fill out Gogol's story by using folk dances and calendar songs. He went further down this path in ""The Snow Maiden"", where he made extensive use of seasonal calendar songs and ""khorovodi"" (ceremonial dances) in the folk tradition. Musicologists and Slavicists have long recognized that Rimsky-Korsakov was an ecumenical artist whose folklore-inspired operas take up such issues as the relationship between paganism and Christianity and the"
"from Hoffmann and de la Motte Fouqué, three other important authors from the era were Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (""The Marble Statue"", 1819), Ludwig Achim von Arnim (""Die Majoratsherren"", 1819), and Adelbert von Chamisso (""Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte"", 1814). After them, Wilhelm Meinhold wrote ""The Amber Witch"" (1838) and ""Sidonia von Bork"" (1847). Also writing in the German language, Jeremias Gotthelf wrote ""The Black Spider"" (1842), an allegorical work that used Gothic themes. The last work from German writer Theodor Storm, ""The Rider on the White Horse"" (1888), also uses Gothic motives and themes. In the beginning of the 20th"
"in other genres: Reinhold Glière choreographed a ballet based on it, and Nikolai Myaskovsky's 10th Symphony (1926–7) was inspired by the poem. The statue itself has been seen as the inspiration or model for a similar statue which appears in Joseph Conrad’s 1904 political novel ""Nostromo"", thus implicitly linking the political events in ""Nostromo"" with Conrad’s 1905 essay “Autocracy and War” on the subject of Russia and his eventual 1912 novel ""Under Western Eyes"" (and also with the Pushkin poem and with the political issue of Poland). Bronze Horseman The Bronze Horseman (, literally ""copper horseman"") is an equestrian statue"