The Tsar's Bride
Overture
by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Concert Band - Sheet Music

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Concert band concert band - Grade 5

SKU: BF.BM154-SET

Overture. Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. Arranged by Egbert van Groningen. Baton Music orchestral series. Overture. Full Score and set of parts. Duration 7:00. Baton Music #BM154-SET. Published by Baton Music (BF.BM154-SET).

The Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) finished his opera The Tsar's Bride in 1899. This opera is a lurid melodrama set in the time of Ivan the Terrible, though this might hardly be guessed from its overture. However, this was a period when Rimsky was concerned with 'classicizing' his style, and the piece is best taken simply as a neat sonata structure built from highly abstractive music, though with what sounds like a sort of double recapitulation followed by a wistful new melody introducing the dying coda.