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    was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite...
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    The following is a list of compositions by Russian composer Mily Balakirev. All are for solo piano unless otherwise indicated below. Piano Concerto No...
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    leader, Balakirev, considered academicism a threat to musical imagination. Along with critic Vladimir Stasov, who supported The Five, Balakirev attacked...
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    composer Mily Balakirev, who provided him the program, which had a long history. Critic Vladimir Stasov had written it and sent it to Balakirev in 1868 hoping...
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  • Shakespeare story. The first strand, written in F-sharp minor, following Mily Balakirev's suggestion, is the introduction representing the saintly Friar Laurence...
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    with Mily Balakirev and Anatoly Lyadov) Ruslan and Lyudmila (edited with Balakirev and Lyadov) Complete Orchestral Works (edited with Balakirev and Lyadov)...
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    Musical Society, critic Vladimir Stasov and an 18-year-old pianist, Mily Balakirev, met and agreed upon a nationalist agenda for Russian music, one that...
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  • Op.54 (EMI) Piano Sonata, Op.57 (EMI) Polonaise, Op.89 (EMI) Rondo a capriccio, Op.129 (EMI) Variations on 'God Save the King', WoO 78 (EMI) Variations...
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  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov gave him private lessons in music theory after Mily Balakirev said his works showed some promise. He also became acquainted with the...
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    studied composition under the distinguished teacher Siegfried Dehn. A Capriccio on Russian Themes for piano duet and an unfinished Symphony on Two Russian...
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  • Tammelin 1836 1915 Swedish Susan McFarland Parkhurst 1836 1918 American Mily Balakirev 1837 1910 Russian Islamey Théodore Dubois 1837 1924 French Carlotta Ferrari...
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    (originally in E♭ minor), between 1861 and 1865 under the guidance of Mily Balakirev. Balakirev also premiered the work at a concert of the Free Music School in...
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  • his own theater, the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens. Late autumn – Mily Balakirev meets Mikhail Glinka in Saint Petersburg. Their friendship cements the...
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    Alfredo Casella – Paganiniana Op. 65 (1942) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Capriccio Diabolico for classical guitar is a homage to Paganini, and quotes "La...
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    pieces by Balakirev, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Khachaturian (Philips, A76700R) 1955 Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 and poetic Capriccios no. 2 and...
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  • group of nationalistic Russian composers known as "The Five", led by Mily Balakirev. Because Tchaikovsky used three Ukrainian folk songs to great effect in...
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    to receive advice from Balakirev. At 16, he completed his First Symphony, which was successfully premiered under Balakirev's direction on March 29, 1882...
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  • Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his Fantasia on Serbian Themes, Op. 6, in 1867. Mily Balakirev conducted the first performed of this piece in May of that year. It is...
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  • pieces of classical music, in literature, and in popular culture. Mily Balakirev has a "Tarantella in B major". Agustín Barrios wrote a "Tarantella for...
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    by Byron's poem of the same name and written to a program supplied by Balakirev. Written in four movements and for the largest orchestra Tchaikovsky employed...
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  • Symphony by the sixteen-year-old Glazunov, who had been discovered by Balakirev and tutored by Rimsky-Korsakov in musical composition, counterpoint and...
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  • Mily Balakirev...
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    resembled Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. He showed his work-in-progress to Balakirev. Balakirev did not approve of how Rimsky-Korsakov had written the exposition...
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    was first suggested to the composer as an opera subject in 1868 by Mily Balakirev. (Alexander Borodin, too, once toyed with the idea.) However, the opera...
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  • short story writer, essayist, novelist) Ivan Aivazovsky (painter) Mily Balakirev (composer) Alexander Borodin (composer) Karl Briullov (painter) César...
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  • piano, winds, and percussion (1974) Piano Concerto No. 3 (1999) Mily Balakirev Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 (1855) Grande Fantaisie on...
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  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Tchaikovsky: Children's Album; Balakirev: Islamey – Decca Records (1993) Beethoven: Piano variations WoO 69, op...
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  • Thumbnail for List of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky
    Arrangement (Balakirev) Piano Duet Король Лир, музыка к трагедии Шекспира King Lear, music to Shakespeare's Tragedy 1860 1860 — Arrangement (Balakirev) Piano...
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    composers of the previous generation such as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Mily Balakirev were also played there. The idea for the Russian Symphony Concerts was...
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    at a concert of the Russian Musical Society (RMS), conducted by Mily Balakirev. Rimsky-Korsakov later wrote an opera of the same name which quotes freely...
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