Message #388

[IanP]

Do you think that Rimsky-Korsakov, after he was appointed Professor at the Petersburg Conservatory (not a university, but certainly some sort of academic environment for teaching composition and orchestration), and set about an intensive study of theory, harmony, counterpoint, etc., of his own, would have agreed with you? Or when he set out to theorise on orchestration (as Berlioz did before him and Strauss did afterwards)?