In the context of this artwork, analyze the Music of Rimsky-Korsakov of the Background and inspiration.
Another inspiration for the painting was the symphonic suite Antar, which was composed by the Russian Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and is composed of four movements; the opening movement, vengeance, power and love.The music of Antar's bloody second movement inspired Repin the most; he said in his memoirs:
In Moscow in 1881, while I was listening to a new piece by Rimsky-Korsakov, Vengeance ("Месть"). This sound wave took possession of me, and I thought, that I could not embody the state of the soul I had known under the influence of this music in a painting. I then remembered Tsar Ivan.
Russian Moscow Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Antar Russia