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Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936), the Russian composer, is principally associated with his first ballet Raymonda, the apex of his cooperation with the great choreographer Marius Petipa, then in the last years of his illustrious career. Raymonda is still performed in Russia and intermittently in the West. Glazunov, a precocious musical talent from his childhood, was regarded as the inheritor of the Russian nationalist ideals. However, he soon turned to absolute form of music, rather than the thematically inspired tone paintings so typical of the Mighty Handful. His symphonic compositions are nonetheless full of Russian folk allusion. His emotional world seems to have been centred in the atmosphere of the classical Russian ballet. The movements in his abstract orchestral scores seems to reflect a glittering, chandelier-lit cosmos. He was the composer of four masterful dance compositions: Scenes de Ballet, Op. 52 (1894), Raymonda, Op. 57 (1898), Les Ruses d'Amour, Op.61 (1900), and The Seasons, Op. 67 (1900). All became major works in the sunset of the Imperial Ballet, and remain landmarks in the history of theatre music for the dance. Glazunov appears to have been a war

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Author

Robert Ignatius Letellier, Robert Ignatius Letellier

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443840118

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts