Composer and Teacher. He is considered a key link between the Romantic and Soviet periods of Russian music. Gliere's best-known compositions are the folklore-based Symphony No. 3, "Ilya Murometz" (1911), and the ballet "The Red Poppy" (1927), with its famous "Russian Sailors' Dance". He later renamed the ballet "The Red Flower" after learning that the poppy was the source of opium and not the revolutionary symbol he had mistakenly believed. His other works include a fine Harp Concerto (1938), the ballet "The Bronze Horseman" (1949), six operas, much chamber and vocal music, and over 150 piano pieces. Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere was born in Kiev, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. As a private teacher in the early 1900s, professor of composition at the Kiev Conservatory (1913 to 1919) and at the Moscow Conservatory (1920 to 1941), he influenced generations of Russian musicians. His students included Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, and Khachaturian. Gliere's conservative style was strongly influenced by Tchaikovsky and Borodin and also reflected his keen interest in Eastern folk music. It met with official Soviet approval and he was shielded from Stalin's political purges of the arts during the 1930s and 1940s. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1938 and served as chairman of the Union of Soviet Composers from 1938 to 1948.
Composer and Teacher. He is considered a key link between the Romantic and Soviet periods of Russian music. Gliere's best-known compositions are the folklore-based Symphony No. 3, "Ilya Murometz" (1911), and the ballet "The Red Poppy" (1927), with its famous "Russian Sailors' Dance". He later renamed the ballet "The Red Flower" after learning that the poppy was the source of opium and not the revolutionary symbol he had mistakenly believed. His other works include a fine Harp Concerto (1938), the ballet "The Bronze Horseman" (1949), six operas, much chamber and vocal music, and over 150 piano pieces. Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere was born in Kiev, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. As a private teacher in the early 1900s, professor of composition at the Kiev Conservatory (1913 to 1919) and at the Moscow Conservatory (1920 to 1941), he influenced generations of Russian musicians. His students included Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, and Khachaturian. Gliere's conservative style was strongly influenced by Tchaikovsky and Borodin and also reflected his keen interest in Eastern folk music. It met with official Soviet approval and he was shielded from Stalin's political purges of the arts during the 1930s and 1940s. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1938 and served as chairman of the Union of Soviet Composers from 1938 to 1948.
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