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(Rin’-hold Mo-ret-zo’-vech Gle-âr) 1875–1956 Russian composer Glière studied with Taneyev and Arensky at the Moscow Conservatory where he was professor between 1920 and 1941. He was chairman of the Organizing Committee of USSR Composers (1938–48) and received many state awards. His style, in the tradition of Russian Romanticism, features expressive melody, brilliant orchestration and reflects the folk music of ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(An’-ton Stya-pa-no’-vech A-ren’-shke) 1861–1906 Russian composer and pianist Arensky studied with Rimsky-Korsakov at the St Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, but was also heavily influenced by Tchaikovsky whom he met, along with Taneyev, while he was working as professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his pupils were Rachmaninov, Glière and Alexander Scriabin. During a virtuoso career he held the ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(Sâr’-ga E-va-no’-vich Ta-na’-yof) 1856–1915 Russian composer Taneyev studied in Moscow with Nicolai Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, a lifelong friend. He gave the Moscow premieres of all Tchaikovsky’s piano concertos and in 1878 succeeded him at the Conservatory, becoming director, 1885–89. His music was, like Tchaikovsky’s, cosmopolitan, especially skilful in his use of Bachian counterpoint (about which he ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(Al-yek’-san’-der Kon-stan-te-no’-vich Gla’-zoo-nof) 1865–1936 Russian composer Glazunov was heir to the nationalism of ‘The Five’ and the cosmopolitanism of Tchaikovsky. He studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and completed many of Borodin’s works after he died, notating the overture to Prince Igor from memory. In the 1880s and 1890s he enjoyed international fame for works such as the tone-poem Stenka Razin (1885), the ballet ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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