Mikhaïl Glinka

Mikhaïl Ivanovitch Glinka (in; ), born on June 1st 1804 with Novospaskoïe and dead the February 15th 1857 with Berlin, was a Russian Compositeur , founder of the modern Russian musical school.

Biography

It continues musical studies near many professors of Central Europe and in particular with Berlin with Siegfried Dehn, former student of Beethoven. It is subject to the influence of the Germany, of the France and on the Italy where it remains in 1830 and 1833 but of return in Russia, it decides to build a new harmony founded on the characteristics of the Russian popular songs. It seems the founder of the Russian school. The work of Glinka indeed has a dramatic dimension which announces Moussorgski and Rimski-Korsakov. He was also the contemporary and the friend of Pouchkine and Gogol, encouraged the musical vocation of the young person Balakirev and was the model and the direct inspirer of the Groupe of the Five.

Glinka is also the author of the Patriotic song writes in 1833 and become the National anthem of the Russian Empire until the revolution Bolshevik in 1917. During the collapse of the the USSR, this anthem was again used that being that of the Fédération of Russia of 1990 to 2000.

Principal works

Operas

  • a life for the tsar (1836), according to the legend of Ivan Soussanine, Russian national hero.
  • Rouslan and Ludmila (1842), according to the poem epic of Alexandre Pouchkine.
Both choreographies by Antoine Titus.

Lovesongs and melodies

  • My toothing-stone (first known lovesong of Glinka, made up in 1824 “It is my first experiment of a work with text”, specifies it on the autograph.
  • the Lark
  • the Night round
  • Good-byes with Saint-Pétersbourg
  • the Doubt
  • Where thus is our pink

Chamber music

  • picturesque Imaginations
  • Lovesong for Violin, violoncello and Toothing-stone
  • Variations for toothing-stone and piano on a reason for Mozart

Symphonic poems

  • Aragonese Jota (1848)
  • One Night in Madrid (1848)
  • Kamarinskaïa (1848)

External bonds

  • Biography on russie.net
  • Mikhaïl Glinka - National anthem of Russia - rus. C.K

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