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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer
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Mily Balakirev
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
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Maximilian Steinberg
Maximilian Steinberg
Russian classical music composer (1883-1946)
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Anton Arensky
Anton Arensky
Russian composer, pianist and professor of music
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Nikolai Tcherepnin
Nikolai Tcherepnin
Russian composer
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
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Artur Lemba
Artur Lemba
Estonian composer
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Alexander Borodin
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Russian composer (1839-1881)
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
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Alexander Tcherepnin
Alexander Tcherepnin
American composer
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Reinhold Glière
Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer
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Yevgeny Mravinsky
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
Alexander Glazunov
Russian composer, music teacher and conductor

Alexander Glazunov

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Russian composer, music teacher and conductor
Awards Received
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Portrait of Glazunov by Ilya Repin, 1887

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Константи́нович Глазуно́в, 10 August 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, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued as head of the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. The best-known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich.

Glazunov successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music. While he was the direct successor to Balakirev's nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin's epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences. These included Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral virtuosity, Tchaikovsky's lyricism and Taneyev's contrapuntal skill. Younger composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich eventually considered his music old-fashioned, while also admitting he remained a composer with an imposing reputation, and a stabilizing influence in a time of transition and turmoil.
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