Glazunov, Alexander

Alexander Glazunov – Ballad in F major op.78

(b. St. Petersburg, 10 August 1865 – dt. Neuilly-sur-Seine, 21 March 1936)

(1902)

Preface
Alexander Glazunov was one of the composers, comparable with Max Bruch, who even in the first half of the 20th century persistently adhered to the musical language of Romanticism. For example, he could not bear the compositions of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, although as director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory he certainly promoted them.

Born in St. Petersburg in 1865 as the son of a publisher and bookseller and a pianist, Alexander Glazunov showed phenomenal musical talent at an early age. His mother therefore ensured a good education quite soon and sought advice from Mili Balakirev, one of the most important musical personalities of that time in Russia. At the age of nine, Glazunov began piano lessons, at eleven he began composing, and by the age of sixteen he had already composed his first symphony (of eight symphonies, the ninth was not completed and was finished by someone else), …

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