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Also Known As Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Born June 1, 1804 • Russia
Died February 15, 1857 (aged 52) • Berlin • Prussia
Notable Works orchestra • “A Life for the Tsar” • “Festival Polonaise” • “Jota aragonesa” • “Kamarinskaya” • “Ruslan and Lyudmila” • “Summer Night in Madrid” • “Zapiski”
Movement / Style nationalistic music • Russia

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Aleksandr Borodin
Russian composer and scientist
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer
Aleksandr Glazunov.
Aleksandr Glazunov
Russian composer
Dmitry Kabalevsky
Russian composer
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, oil painting by K.Y. Makovsky.
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky
Russian composer
Nikolay Tcherepnin.
Nikolay Tcherepnin
Russian composer
Glière, Reinhold
Reinhold Glière
Soviet composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Serge Koussevitzky.
Serge Koussevitzky
American conductor
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Enesco, George
George Enesco
Romanian musician and composer
Antonín Dvořák.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, detail of a portrait by V.A. Serov; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Sergey Taneyev.
Sergey Taneyev
Russian composer and pianist

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