Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich G Composers Composition

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich G Composers Composition

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich

Russian Romantic composer Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857) is considered the founder of that nation's nationalist music movement. He had considerable influence on Balakirev, who founded The Five, and his opera A Life for the Tsar was the first to delve deeply into Russia's folk music.

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- Freely downloadable MIDI files from On Classical/Kunst der Fuge.
- Encyclopedia.com article with pronunciation and bibliography. Includes premium material from the Electric Library.
- Summary list of noted works, life history, and portrait at the Classical Composers Database.
- Directory of mp3s on the internet that have been made available by their performing artists.
- Brief biography from Humanities Web with selected works, portrait, quotations, discography, suggested reading, additional resources, chronology, and related articles.
- Songs and cycles with transliterated and Cyrillic texts, some with English translations. From the Lied and Art Song Texts Page at REC Music.
- Filmography noting movies and television programs based on or using his works from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
- Biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of operatic and orchestral works, and Naxos discography.
- Brief biography and summaries of his operas and orchestral music with recommended recordings.
- Music files offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists.
- Picture of tombstone with link to list of other notable interments in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery cemetary in St. Petersburg. From Find a Grave.
- Biography showing him for a time as Russia's leading composer, having a voice developed without system or school includes his influence on others and a summary list of works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.

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