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BALAKIREV, MILI ALEREIVICH (1836- )

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BALAKIREV, MILI ALEREIVICH (1836- ) , See also:Russian musical composer, was See also:born at Nijni-See also:Novgorod on the 31st of See also:December 1836. He had the See also:advantage as a boy of living with Oulibichev, author of a See also:Life of See also:Mozart, who had a private See also:band, and from whom Balakirev obtained a valuable See also:education in See also:music. At eighteen, after a university course in See also:mathematics, he went to St See also:Petersburg, full of See also:national ardour, and there made the acquaintance of See also:Glinka. See also:Round him gathered Cesar Cui (b. 1835), and others, and in 1862 the See also:Free School of Music was established, by which, and by Balakirev's See also:personal zeal, the See also:modern school of Russian music was largely stimulated. In 1869 Balakirev was appointed director of the imperial See also:chapel and conductor of the Imperial Musical Society. His See also:influence as a conductor, and as an organizer of Russian music, give him the See also:place of a founder of a new See also:movement, apart even from his own compositions, which though few in number are remarkable in themselves. His See also:works consist largely of songs and collections of folk-songs, but include a See also:symphony (first played in See also:England in 1901), two symphonic poems (" See also:Russia " and " Tamara "), and four overtures, besides See also:pianoforte pieces. His orchestral works are of the " See also:programme-music " See also:order, but all are brilliant examples of the highly coloured, elaborate See also:style characteristic of modern Russian composers, and See also:developed by Balakirev's disciples, such as See also:Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov.

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