Editing Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (section)

===Students===
Rimsky-Korsakov taught theory and composition to 250 students over his 35-year tenure at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, "enough to people a whole 'school' of composers". This does not include pupils at the two other schools where he taught, including Glazunov, or those he taught privately at his home, such as Igor Stravinsky.<ref>Taruskin, ''Stravinsky'', 1:163.</ref> Apart from Glazunov and Stravinsky, students who later found fame included Anatoly Lyadov, [[Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov]], [[Alexander Spendiaryan]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], [[Ottorino Respighi]], [[Witold Maliszewski]], [[Mykola Lysenko]], [[Artur Kapp]], and [[Konstanty Gorski]]. Other students included the music critic and [[musicologist]] [[Alexander Ossovsky]], and the composer [[Lazare Saminsky]].<ref name="schonberg365">Schonberg, 365.</ref>

Rimsky-Korsakov felt talented students needed little formal dictated instruction. His teaching method included distinct steps: show the students everything needed in harmony and counterpoint; direct them in understanding the forms of composition; give them a year or two of systematic study in the development of technique, exercises in free composition and orchestration; instill a good knowledge of the piano. Once these were properly completed, studies would be over.<ref>Rimsky-Korsakov, ''My Musical Life'', 34.</ref> He carried this attitude into his conservatory classes. Conductor [[Nikolai Malko]] remembered that Rimsky-Korsakov began the first class of the term by saying, "I will speak, and you will listen. Then I will speak less, and you will start to work. And finally I will not speak at all, and you will work."<ref name="malko49"/> Malko added that his class followed exactly this pattern. "Rimsky-Korsakov explained everything so clearly and simply that all we had to do was to do our work well."<ref name="malko49">Malko, 49.</ref>