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Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August [O.S. 29 July] 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory ...
Aleksandr Glazunov (born July 29 [Aug. 10, New Style], 1865, St. Petersburg, Russia—died March 21, 1936, Paris, France) was the major Russian symphonic composer of the generation that followed Tchaikovsky. Glazunov’s mother, a piano pupil of Mily Balakirev, took her obviously talented son to her teacher, and on his advice the boy in 1880 ...
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A Russian composer, director and teacher, born in 1865 at St. Petersburg, Alexander Glazunov was well-known for his conservative, classic compositions. He first studied music with Balakirev, and later with Rimsky-Korsakov. They both influenced and promoted his first successful symphony, Op.5, 1881, which he composed at age 16.
Alexander was the eldest child of Konstantin Ilyich Glazunov (1828–1914) and his wife Yelena (b. Gromova, 1846–1925). Gromova, 1846–1925). As a child he had an exceptional ear and memory for music, began to study piano at the age of nine, and wrote his first composition two years later.
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution.
Aug 10, 2010 · On his 145th birthday, we'll listen to some of the beautiful music written by Russian composer Alexander Glazunov. We'll hear some of his shorter orchestral works, and his "Scenes de Ballet," a work he wrote as a gift for the St. Petersburg Orchestra. Also today: summer music by Honegger, stormy music of Beethoven, and a heroic piece by Chopin.
Russ. composer. Pupil of Rimsky‐Korsakov 1880–1. Balakirev cond. his first sym. in 1882, the work being hailed as a precocious masterpiece. Glazunov later met Liszt at Weimar and was influenced by his and Wagner's mus. Cond. in Paris 1889 and London 1896–7. Became dir. of St Petersburg Cons. 1905 after which his comps. became fewer.
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