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[RIMSKII-KORSAKOV, Nikolai Andreevich (1844-1908). Snegurochka (Snow Maiden), 1890 or earlier].
2° (379 x 271mm). Engraved music, plates numbered 3-243. (Lacking title, some browning.) Contemporary roan-backed blue boards (spine heavily rubbed, inner hinges repaired). Provenance: 'To dear Vasilii Pavlovich Kalafati In memory from N. Rimskii-Korsakov 26 November 1900' (inscribed in Russian at head of first leaf); some marginal annotations in an unknown hand, in blue crayon or pencil; inscribed in Russian at end 'I ask [you] to correct and print' and signed A. [?]Gladnia.
Taken from a story by A.N. Ostrovskii, Snegurochka or the Snow Maiden was composed in 1880, with a prologue and four acts. A second version was produced in 1895, and both versions had their first performances in St. Petersburg. Kalafati (1869-1942) was Rimsky-Korsakoff's former pupil at the St. Peterburg Conservatory (1899), which he then joined as professor of composition teaching Stravinksii, Prokop'ev and others. Grove IX, p. 773.
2° (379 x 271mm). Engraved music, plates numbered 3-243. (Lacking title, some browning.) Contemporary roan-backed blue boards (spine heavily rubbed, inner hinges repaired). Provenance: 'To dear Vasilii Pavlovich Kalafati In memory from N. Rimskii-Korsakov 26 November 1900' (inscribed in Russian at head of first leaf); some marginal annotations in an unknown hand, in blue crayon or pencil; inscribed in Russian at end 'I ask [you] to correct and print' and signed A. [?]Gladnia.
Taken from a story by A.N. Ostrovskii, Snegurochka or the Snow Maiden was composed in 1880, with a prologue and four acts. A second version was produced in 1895, and both versions had their first performances in St. Petersburg. Kalafati (1869-1942) was Rimsky-Korsakoff's former pupil at the St. Peterburg Conservatory (1899), which he then joined as professor of composition teaching Stravinksii, Prokop'ev and others. Grove IX, p. 773.
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