Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Piano Concerto in C sharp minor between 1882 and 1883. It was first performed in March 1884 at one of Mili Balakirev's Free Music School concerts in St. Petersburg.
The concerto is written in one continuous movement with three contrasting sections:
After a long hiatus, Mili Balakirev reappeared on the Russian music scene in 1881, at the first Free Music School concert of the 1881-82 season. Likewise, it was Ba...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Piano Concerto in C sharp minor between 1882 and 1883. It was first performed in March 1884 at one of Mili Balakirev's Free Music School concerts in St. Petersburg.
The concerto is written in one continuous movement with three contrasting sections:
After a long hiatus, Mili Balakirev reappeared on the Russian music scene in 1881, at the first Free Music School concert of the 1881-82 season. Likewise, it was Balakirev who suggested that Rimsky-Korsakov write a piano concerto. Rimsky-Korsakov was not a pianist. Nevertheless, as Rimsky-Korsakov wrote, "It must be said that it sounded beautiful and proved entirely satisfactory in the sense of piano techinique and style; this greatly astonished Balakirev, who found my concerto to his liking. He had by no means expected that I ... should know how to compose anything entirely pianistic."
Rimsky-Korsakov acknowledged his indebtedness to Franz Liszt in writing this work, dedicating it to him. Like Liszt's...
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