Wagner, 151, 160 Yagjinsky, Count, 45 Yagoujinsky, 31 Yastrebtsiev, V., 250 Youssipov, Prince, 91, 363 Zagoskin, 64 Zaremba, 195, 284 Zeleny, 394 Zeuner, 79 Zimin, 393 Zotov, Mme. S. I., 194 Zvantsiev, K. I., 151 FOOTNOTES: [1] Letter from Borodin to Countess Mercy-Argenteau. [2] The show refers to a legend of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, the saint held in most honour by the Russians. [3] Gorbounov. "A Sketch for the History of Russian Opera" (in Russian). [4] Gorbounov. "A Sketch for the History of Russian Opera." [5] Some authorities believe that the music, as well as the text of this opera, was written by Matinsky. [6] Karatagyn gives a list of twenty-six operas in the preface to Jurgenson's edition of _The Miller_. [7] A History of Russian Opera (_Istoriya Russ. Operî_), Jurgenson, St. Petersburg, 1905. [8] He must not be confounded with V. V. Berezovsky, whose "Russian Music" (Rousskaya Muzyka: Kritiko-istorichesky Ocherk) appeared in 1898. [9] The first performance of Glinka's _A Life for the Tsar_ took place here in November of that year. [10] Possibly Madox. [11] Sometimes written Astaritta. [12] In Grove's Dictionary of Music I give the date of Alabiev's birth as August 30th, 1787, following most of the approved authorities of the day. But more recent investigations have revealed the correct date as August 4th. [13] Soloveiv asserts that Sousanin did not save the Tsar from the Poles but from the Russian Cossacks who had become demoralised during the long interregnum. [14] This fragment of a familiar melody drew down on Glinka the criticism of an aristocratic amateur that the music of _A Life for the Tsar_ was fit for coachmen and serfs, and provoked Glinka's sarcastic retort: "What matter, since the servants are better than their masters." [15] The appearance of the Commandatore is accompanied by a sinister progression as thrilling in its way as that strange and horrible chord with which Richard Strauss leads up to Salome's sacrilegious kiss in the closing scene of this opera. [16] Balakirev, Cui, Moussorgsky, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov. [17] In _Vek_ (The Century). No. I. [18] In _Severnoy Pchela_ (The Northern Bee). [19] Reprinted in "Twenty-five Years of Russian Art." The collected works (Sobranie Sochinenie) of Vladimir Stassov. Vol. I. [20] "Accept life as it comes." (_Nie tak iivi kak khochetsya._) [21] He also visited England, making his appearance at one of the concerts of the Philharmonic Society, in May 1857. [22] Henceforth alluded to as the I. R. M. S., or the Musical Society. [23] "The Chronicle of my Musical Life" (Lietopis moi muzykalnoi Jizn), 1844-1906. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (Edited by his widow). St. Petersburg, 1909.