| Russian composer, born in Saint
Petersburg. Glazunov studied with the eminent Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov.
Glazunov was the last important composer of the Russian national school
founded by Mikhail Glinka; his work also shows the influence of the Hungarian
composer Franz Liszt and the German composer
Richard Wagner. In 1889, together
with Rimsky-Korsakov, he completed the opera Prince Igor, left unfinished
by the Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin on his death (1887). Glazunov
taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory between the years 1900 and 1906
and was its director from 1906 to 1917. He left the Soviet Union in 1928
and lived in Paris. His compositions include eight symphonies, the symphonic
poems Stenka Razin and The Kremlin (1892), the ballets Raymonda (1898) and
The Seasons (1901), the Violin Concerto op. 82 (1904), chamber music, and
music for piano and for voice. |