After a long hiatus, Mily Balakirev reappeared on the Russian music scene in 1881, at the first Free Music School concert of the 1881-82 season. It was Balakirev who suggested that Rimsky-Korsakov write a piano concerto. Rimsky-Korsakov was not a pianist. Nevertheless, as Rimsky-Korsakov wrote, "It must be said that it sounded beautiful and proved entirely satisfactory in the sense of piano technique and style; this greatly astonished Balakirev, who found my concerto to his liking. He had by no means expected that I ... should know how to compose anything entirely pianistic."
| Date of composition | 1883 (1882-1883) |
| Premiered | March 1884 in Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| First published | 1886 in Leipzig, Germany |
| Dedicated to | To the memory of Franz Liszt |
| Type | Concerto |
| Tonality | C-sharp Minor |
| Catalogue | Op. 30 |
| Approx. duration | 15 minutes |
| Instruments |
Piano
Orchestra |
| Autotranslations beta |
Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov: Concerto pour piano en do dièse mineur, Op. 30 Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov: Concerto per pianoforte in do diesis minore, Op. 30 Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow: Konzert für Klavier cis-moll, Op. 30 |