Sadko | |
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Tableau musical, or Musical picture | |
Tone poem by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | |
![]() Sadko, painting by Ilya Repin (1876) | |
Opus | 5 |
Composed | 1867 | , revised 1869, 1892
Performed | 1867 |
Scoring | 3 (+picc), 2, 2, 2–4, 2, 2+bass, 1, timp, harp, strings |
Sadko, Op. 5, is a Tableau musical, or Musical picture, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1867 and revised in 1869 and 1892. It is sometimes called the first symphonic poem written in Russia.[1] It was first performed in 1867 at a concert of the Russian Musical Society (RMS), conducted by Mily Balakirev.[2] Rimsky-Korsakov later wrote an opera of the same name which quotes freely from the earlier work.[3] From the tone poem the composer quoted its most memorable passages in the opera, including the opening theme of the swelling sea,[3] and other themes as leitmotifs[4] – he himself set out to "utilize for this opera the material of my symphonic poem, and, in any event, to make use of its motives as leading motives for the opera".[5]
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