Mily Balakirev
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (1837-1910) · Russia · Musicians · Lived 1836 to 1910 · aged 73
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Something wrong?He shaped the sound of Russian classical music more through others than through himself. Balakirev gathered The Five - Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui - and drilled his vision of nationalist music into them when most were amateurs.
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Born in 1837, Balakirev extended Mikhail Glinka's fusion of Russian folk music and experimental classical forms, developing patterns that could carry overt nationalistic feeling. In the late 1850s and early 1860s, working with critic Vladimir Stasov, he assembled The Five - he was the only professional among them - and imposed his musical beliefs through methods that could be dictatorial but produced works that made their reputations. A nervous breakdown sent him into sabbatical; when he returned his influence had diminished. He started his First Symphony in 1864 and finished it in 1897. The oriental piano fantasy Islamey, composed quickly, remains a virtuoso staple. He completed his Second Symphony in 1908, two years before his death in 1910.
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