Glazunov, Alexander

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov
(Александр Константинович Глазунов)

(10 August 1865, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 21 March 1936, Neuilly-sur-Seine [near Paris], France)

Spring, musical tableau for orchestra, op. 34

Le Printemps: Tableau musical pour orchestra, op. 34
Весна, соч. 34

Composition
1891
Dedication
à Mr. Nikolas Sokolow (Nikolay Sokolov, 1859–1922)
First edition
Leipzig, Edition M. P. Belaïeff, 1892, plate 510
Arrangement for piano, four hands
by Aleksandr Winkler. Leipzig, Edition M. P. Belaïeff, 1912
Orchestration
piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets in A, bass clarinet in A, two bassoons, four horns in F, three trombones*, tuba*, Glockenspiel, timpani, harp, and strings.[*low brass only play three chords (reinforcing the horns): they could be omitted or replaced with an organ]

Biography
Alexander Glazunov was a prominent Russian composer who became a professor (1899-1905) and later the director of the Saint Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad Conservatory (1905-1930), shepherding it through the turbulent times of the Bolshevik Revolution. During his tenure he worked tirelessly to improve the curriculum, raise standards, defend the institute’s autonomy through many political regimes, and establish an opera studio and students’ philharmonic orchestra. His early music was praised by Borodin, Stasov, and the young Stravinsky, but was considered old-fashioned by his best-known student, Dmitri Shostakovich, who attended the Petrograd Conservatory from 1919-1925. —

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