1844: 1856-62: 1861: 1871: 1873: 1908: Composed: First performance: Orchestration: Biography of the Composer ikolai Rimsky-Korsakow born in Tichvin (Novgorod) on 18 March attended the Naval School in St Petersburg he became acquainted with the composers Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky and Borodin, who influenced his development. “The Five’, including Rimsky-Korsakov himself, were later dubbed the “The Mighty Hand- ful’. Rimsky-Korsakov was the only one of the group really to have studied the technique of composition. he was made professor of instrumentation and com- position at the St Petersburg Conservatoire he left naval service, earning his living from then on as a composer and a highly esteemed teacher (his pupils included Tanayev, Gretchaninov, Glasunoy, Respighi, Stravinsky, Prokofjev) he died on his country estate at Lyubensk (near St Petersburg) on 21 June History of the work Scheherazade in the summer of 1888 in Neshgovitsy on Lake Tcheremenetsky in St Petersburg on 3 Dezember 1888 piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, tambourine, drum, cym- bals, bass drum, tamtam, harp, strings