Extra Credit Paper – Chapter 17 The great Russian composers of the early twentieth century, for the most part, experienced two portions to their lives. They were born, raised, and trained in tsarist Russia, but spent the majority of their composing and performing years outside the country due to the revolutionary changes. Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer and musical theorist,was one of the greatest composers of the Russian nationalist school, and a great master of orchestration. He …showed first 75 words of 1422 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1422 total…could do to please Stalin, while at the same time may have been expressing the composer\'s true feelings about the difficulties of artistic life in Russia at the time. Although his vast output is variable in quality, Shostakovich was nevertheless able to compose some powerful and lasting works. He is known primarily for his fifteen symphonies and string quartets, as these are the works that contain much of his most original thought and expression