Balakirev

Balakirev

BalakirevMily Alexeyevich Balakirev (Russian: ????? ?????????? ?????????, Milij Alekseevic Balakirev, 1910) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He is known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism in Russia. Working in conjunction with critic Vladimir Stasov, Balakirev brought together the composers now known as the Five, encouraged their efforts and acted as a musical midwife both for them and for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Balakirev began his career as a pivotal figure in Russian music by extending and developing the fusion began by Mikhail Glinka of traditional Russian and boldly experimental music. In doing so, he established musical patterns that could express overtly nationalistic feeling. He not only demonstrated in his own works how this could be done, but also by taking amateur musicians of prescribed musical education but enormous potential such as Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he imparted his own musical beliefs and passed them on to underlie the thinking of his pupils.

Balakirev found himself in an unusual position in his later yers of attending premieres of works he had begun long ago but had only recently completed. For instance, he began writing his First Symphony in 1864 but finished it in 1897. Often, the musical ideas normally associated with Rimsky-Korsakov or Borodin actually originated in Balakirev's compositions. However, his slowness in bringing his works before the public robbed him of credit for his inventiveness. Also, pieces which if completed in the 1860s and 70s would have enjoyed success if they had been performed at that time actually made a much smaller impact when they were introduced toward the end of the composer's life because they had been overtaken by the accomplishments of younger composers. The exception to this is his oriental fantasy Islamey, which is still popular among pianists.

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Total 72 sheet(s) found, listing between 60 - 72.
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islamy fateh (9)
5175d ago
18 Violin Original
Islamey moosielau (2)
5191d ago
18 Piano Original
the lark sorendo (1)
5240d ago
6 Piano Original
Sonate mateja25 (5)
5262d ago
34 Piano Original
Reverie mateja25 (5)
5262d ago
10 Piano Original
Islamey - An Oriental Fantasy aryamannatt (3)
5278d ago
18 Piano Book
nokturn Huston (1)
5300d ago
9 Piano Original
Islamey thewisejessica (4)
5333d ago
18 Vocal Original
The Lark umnik124 (2)
5343d ago
6 Piano Original
Piano Concerto No.2 mirza (101)
5345d ago
103 Piano Original
Toccata gothik (42)
5406d ago
12 Piano Other
Islamey heyguys (27)
5419d ago
18 Piano Original