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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov the Naval Officer: From the Navy to Music — Scheherazade

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) is best known as a composer. But before he became a professor, conductor, and influential teacher, he was a naval officer.At eighteen, Rimsky-Korsakov graduated from naval school and began a nearly three-year voyage aboard the Almaz, a Russian naval ship that took him to Europe and the...