Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov
Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov was a musicologist, textual scholar, music critic, and philosopher. He was the son and biographer of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and also researched the life and creative legacy of Modest Mussorgsky and Mikhail Glinka.
He studied music theory under his father and learned the cello from Pavel Ronginsky, Karl Marx-Markus, and Eduard Herbeck. In 1903, he graduated from the University of Strasbourg as a philosopher under the supervision of Wilhelm Windelband and defended a doctoral dissertation titled Herbart's Anthology: A Critical Description. From 1906 to 1912, he taught logic, philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy at secondary schools in Saint Petersburg.
From 1912, Rimsky-Korsakov worked as a music critic for the journals and newspapers Russian Speech, Northern Notes, Аpollo, The Book, Russian Thought, and Red Newspaper; at Russian Speech, he headed the music section. He edited and published the journal The Musical Contemporary from 1915 to 1917. He taught the history of Russian music at Petrograd University from 1921 to 1924 and edited the collections Musical Chronicle from 1922 to 1925. From 1923 to 1928, he was a full member of the Institute of the History of Arts and headed its bibliographic bureau. From 1918 to 1940, he worked in the Manuscripts Department and headed the music department of the Public Library.
His books included Maximilian Steinberg: A Biographical Sketch (1928) and Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) (1928). His five-volume N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov: Life and Work was published from 1933 to 1946. He also wrote studies of Igor Stravinsky, Mikhail Glinka, and Mussorgsky, and prepared scholarly editions of Glinka's Notes and Mussorgsky's Letters and Documents. Igor Stravinsky dedicated the ballet The Firebird to him.