Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Information Page

Full Name	Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Occupation	Composer, conductor, writer
Birthdate	March 18, 1844
Birthplace	Tikhvin, Russia
Obtained from	a- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, My musical life, London, Faber and Faber, p. 5
Posted by	PS
Comments	"The first indications of a musical talent appeared in me at a very early age. I was not fully two years old when I clearly distinguished all the tunes that my mother sang to me. Later, when three or four years of age, I beat a toy drum in perfect time while my father played the piano. Often my father would suddenly change the tempo and rhythm on purpose, and I at once followed suit. Soon afterwards I began to sing quite correctly whatever my father played, and often I sang with them. Later on I myself began to pick out on the piano the pieces and accompaniments I had heard him perform and, having learned the names of the notes, I could, from an adjoining room, recognize and name any note on the piano." [a]