Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
Reinhold Glière (1875-1956)
Bio
Glière was born in Kyiv, the son of a Saxon emigrant who married a Polish woman from Warsaw. He studied at the Kyiv school of music and the Moscow Conservatory before taking a teaching post at the Gnesin School of Music. He taught Prokofiev, Khachaturian, and Knipper, and was friends with Serge Koussevitzky. He moved around, teaching for the Moscow Conservatory, and the Kyiv Conservatory, and working for the People's Commissariat for Education in Azerbaijan and Siberia. His strict formalism in composing made him a star among the Soviet elite and he was awarded the title Artist of the People by four different Soviet states.
Music
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major
Symphony No. 2
The Bronze Horseman
Symphony No. 3 in B-minor "Ilya Muroments"
Khrizis
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