Mikhail Glinka

Russian composer

  • Fame59.0
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia19.6K
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Lived 1804–1857, aged 53
MusiciansSinger / Musician
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    65 languages
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  • Era
    1804–1857
    Aged 53
Summary
Updated 2026-06-10

He wrote the first Russian operas that Russians actually claimed as their own — before him, the country imported its high art, after him it had a sound to call national.

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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was born on 1 June 1804 into a world where Russian stages spoke Italian and French. He changed that. His compositions gave Russian classical music its first widely recognized native voice, a foundation that later composers — particularly The Five — would build into a distinct national style. By the time he died on 15 February 1857, he'd done something rarer than fame: he'd created a lineage.

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