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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian composer known for Flight of the Bumblebee and Scheherazade

Did you know?He spent several years as a naval officer and wrote parts of his first symphony while on a three-year voyage at sea.

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.

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