in "The Golden Cock." V. V. Yastrebtsev, Rimsky-Korsakov's devoted and watchful friend, was pleased to find the composer deep in his new score by the middle of November. Progress on the was necessarily interrupted by the mounting of "Kitej" at St. Petersburg, and a trip to for a festival of Russian orchestral concerts organized by Diaghi- lev, in which this composer appeared as conductor of his own music* "The Golden Cock" was completed before the end of the year. The Introduction and March from "The Golden Cock" were performed on February 29, 1908, in under the direction of Felix Blumenfeld. When a performance of the opera of the objectionable text was for- bidden in , Rimsky-Korsakov arranged for a translation into French, with a Paris performance in view. Proofs of "The Golden Cock," which Rimsky-Korsakov corrected while at work on his book on orchestration, was the last music with which he was concerned, and occupied him on what proved to be his deathbed. It required a supersensitive government to take exception to Push- kin's poem, a satire upon a ridiculously ineffectual and entirely fan-

* While in Paris, Rimsky-Korsakov listened to some "new and incomprehensible" music—the "Poeme de VExtase" of Scriabin, the "Salome" of Strauss, and "Pell4as et Milisande." Of the latter score, he said, "I will have nothing more to do with this music lest I should unhappily develop a liking: for it."

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