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Nabokov, Nikolai

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Nabokov, Nikolai (1903–1978)

Russian-born US composer. He studied in Berlin and Stuttgart. He became attached to Diaghilev's Russian Ballet in the 1920s, and later settled in the USA.

Works

Opera and stage music

operas The Holy Devil (1958) and Love's Labour Lost (1973); ballets Ode on seeing the Aurora Borealis (1928), Union Pacific (1934), Don Quixote (1965); incidental music to a dramatic version of Milton's Samson Agonistes.

Orchestral and choral

symphony Sinfonia biblica for orchestra; piano concerto (1932); three symphonies (1930–68); cantata Collectionneur d'échos for soprano, bass, chorus, and percussion; 6 poems of Anna Akhmatova for soprano and orchestra (1966).



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