Alexander

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOW

10th August 1865 --- 21st March 1936

Glazunow was a Russian composer  who was born in St  Petersburg August 10th, 1865,  the son of a publisher and bookseller.   He showed at an  early age
talent for music and studied on the advice of Mily Balakirev, with Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov. At the age of 16 he composed a symphony which he elaborated
and published as (Opus.5), but his Opus.1 was a quartet in D, followed by a pianoforte suite Sacha the diminutive of his name Alexander.

In 1894 helped to some extent by Liszt, he began to make a name outside Russia. His first smphony was played that year at Weimar, and he appeared as a
conductor at the Paris exhibition in 1889. In 1897 he conducted his fourth and fifth symphonies in London.   In 1900 he became professor at the St Peters-
burg conservatoire,  and in 1906 director.   Glazunow was a  leading representative of  the modern Russian school. His ballet Raymonda shows that he also
shared to the Russian love for oriental splendour and movement.

Of Glazunow many compositions, the most famous are perhaps, among the orchestral works, the sixth symphony, in C minor (Opus.58), among those for solo
instruments the theme and variations  for the pianoforte (Opus.72) and the  fine volin concerto in A minor (Opus.73),  among those for the  stage (very few in
number) the ballet Raymonda (Opus.57) already mentioned above.

Glazunov left Russia in 1928, did a tour of America then moved to France were he died in 1936, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

Copyright 1953` Encyclopaedia Britannica

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