Rimsky-Korsakov's position as a national composer and as a teacher. Biographical. Joins Balakirev's circle. Leaves the naval service. His early works. A tone-painter. His first Opera. _The Maid of Pskov_ (Ivan the Terrible). Accession of the Emperor Alexander III. He encourages Russian music. _A Night in May._ _The Snow-Maiden_ (Sniegourochka). _Mlada._ _Christmas Eve Revels._ _Mozart and Salieri._ _Boyarinya Vera Sheloga._ _Sadko._ _The Tsar's Bride._ _The Legend of Tsar Saltan._ The use of the _leitmotif_. _Servilia._ _Kastchei the Immortal._ Wagnerian influence. _Pan Voyevode._ _The Tale of the City of Kitezh._ _The Golden Cock._.....281 CHAPTER XIII TCHAIKOVSKY Tchaikovsky considered apart from the nationalist circle. His early love of Italian opera. _The Voyevode._ _Undine._ _The Oprichnik._ The libretto described. _Cherevichek_, or _Le Caprice d'Oxane_. Passing influence of Balakirev's circle. _Eugene Oniegin._ _The Maid of Orleans._ The composer's enthusiasm for this opera. _Mazeppa._ Analysis of the subject. _Charodeika_ (_The Enchantress_). _The Queen of Spades._ _Iolanthe._ Analysis of Tchaikovsky's operatic styles......334 CHAPTER XIV CONCLUSION Some minor composers. Napravnik: _The Citizens of Nijny-Novgorod_, _Harold_, _Doubrovsky_, _Francesca da Rimini_. Blaramberg: _Skomorokhi_, _The Roussalka-Maiden_, _Toushino_, _The Wave_. Arensky: _A Dream on the Volga_, _Raphael_, _Nal and Damyanti_. Rachmaninov: _Aleko_. Grechyaninov: _Dobrynia Nikitich_. Ippolitov-Ivanov: _Ruth_, _Assya_. Kalinnikov: _The Year 1812_. Taneiev: _Orestes_. Foreign influence in contemporary Russian music. Rebikov: _In the Storm_, _The Christmas Tree_. Kazachenko, Korestchenko, Kochetov, Stravinsky. Famous operatic singers: Platonova, Petrov, Melnikov, the Figners, Shaliapin. Mamantov and the Moscow Private Opera Company. Great increase of opera companies in Russia. Concluding observations......362 THE RUSSIAN OPERA THE RUSSIAN OPERA CHAPTER I THE DAWN OF MUSIC IN RUSSIA