of his music has been recorded as of November 2010. Works, editions and recordings Nabokov's first major musical work was the ballet-oratorio Ode, for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, in 1928, followed by his Lyrical Symphony in 1931. The ode was on verses of Mikhail Lomonosov "Вечернее размышление о Божием величестве", ballet-oratorio Paris 1928. ballet , composed in 1934 for Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, choreography by Léonide Massine, libretto by Archibald MacLeish, premiered in Philadelphia and later in New York with a great success – his best known work in the US. opera Rasputin's End (libretto by Stephen Spender) in 1958. ballet on Don Quixote in 1966. opera Love's Labour's Lost (libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman) was composed in 1971 and performed in 1973. References External links Nicolas Nabokov's Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin Nicolas Nabokov Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 1903 births 1978 deaths Russian male classical composers Ballet composers Russian ballet composers Russian opera composers Male opera composers 20th-century classical composers Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany White Russian emigrants to France White Russian emigrants to the United States Wells College faculty St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) faculty Peabody Institute faculty Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Ballets Russes composers 20th-century Russian male musicians