Part 2:
" Mass in the morning of Easter Sunday, in a large church crammed with people of all social classes, where several popes are celebrating the office simultaneously...this change of mood from the somber mystery of Good Friday to the uninhibited rejoicing of Easter Day..."
This is how Rimsky-Korsakov described what he hoped his audience would experience as they listened to his Russian Easter Festival Overture. The piece was composed in 1888, along with his two other famous works, Scheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol, at the height of his compositional career. He is remembered as a great orchestrator and teacher, with a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects; his students included Stravinsky, Glazanov and Prokofiev.
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