Marriage and home surroundings. _A Life for the Tsar._ Features of the music. Its reception in Russia. _Prince Kholmsky_ and the songs. _Russlan and Liudmilla._ Later works. Failure of health. His interpretation of Russian nationality in music......89 CHAPTER V DARGOMIJSKY Alexander Sergeivich Dargomijsky. His meeting with Glinka. Visit to Paris. _Esmeralda_ and _The Triumph of Bacchus_. Growing interest in national music. Begins work on Poushkin's _Roussalka_. Second tour in Western Europe. Balakirev and his circle. _The Stone Guest._ His treatment of national character as compared with Glinka's......117 CHAPTER VI SEROV Musical life in Russia at the time of Glinka and Dargomijsky. Musical criticism and the academic party. Rapid increase of conservatoires and schools. Struggle between the young nationalists in music and the officials to whom foreign composers were supreme. Two great musical critics, Alexander Serov and Vladimir Stassov. Serov's writings and compositions. His devotion to Wagner. Production of _Judith_ and _Rogneda_. Estimate of Serov's music......137 CHAPTER VII ANTON RUBINSTEIN Early life and education. His début as a prodigy pianist. Musical studies in Berlin. Court pianist at St. Petersburg. His early operas. _Dmitri Donskoi_ and _Thomoushka Dourachok_. Imperial Russian Musical Society. Biblical operas, _The Tower of Babel_, _The Maccabees_, _Paradise Lost_, _The Shulamite_. Secular and national operas, _The Demon_, _Nero_, and _The Merchant Kalashnikov_. Historical Concerts. Rubinstein's opportunism. Estimate of his work and influence......162 CHAPTER VIII BALAKIREV AND HIS DISCIPLES Balakirev. The nationalist circle. Social intercourse. Rimsky-Korsakov. Goussakovsky. The Free School. Borodin. The Pourgolds. Hostility of the Press. Solidarity of "the Invincible Band.".....183 CHAPTER IX PERSONAL MEMORIES OF BALAKIREV'S CIRCLE Gradual dissolution of the circle of friends. Personal reminiscences of Balakirev. Individual development of "the Invincible Band." Belaiev. Lodyjensky. Liadov. Vladimir Stassov. Personal Reminiscences......198 CHAPTER X MOUSSORGSKY Two tendencies in Russian opera, the lyrical and the declamatory. Moussorgsky the disciple of Dargomijsky. Literary and social influences. Biographical details. Early unfinished operas. _Boris Godounov._ _Khovanstchina._ Rimsky-Korsakov as editor......218 CHAPTER XI BORODIN AND CUI Borodin. Biographical details. _Prince Igor._ Comparison of _Igor_ with Glinka's _Russlan and Liudmilla._ Orientalism and optimism in _Prince Igor._ Death of Borodin. César Cui. His French descent. Early operas, _The Mandarin's Son_, _The Captive in the Caucasus_, _William Ratcliff_, _Angelo_, _The Saracen_. A French opera, _Le Flibustier._ _Mam'selle Fifi._ Analysis of Cui's style......253 CHAPTER XII RIMSKY-KORSAKOV