Audio biography Glinka

Audiobook: Life and work of Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka! Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich is a great Russian composer, the founder of Russian classical music. Glinka was born on May 20 on June 1 in the village of Novospassky, near Yelni of the Smolensk province, on the estate of his father, captain in retired, Ivan Nikolaevich Glinka. A painful and weak child, he was brought up by his grandmother by his father, a powerful woman, a thunderstorm of serfs and his loved ones.

M. Glinka has become at the age of ten to play the piano and violin. Since the year, he began to study in a noble boarding house at the Pedagogical Institute of St. Petersburg. Having finished the boarding house, he devoted all his time to music. Then the first works of the composer Glinka were created. As a real creator, Glinka did not fully liked his works, he sought to expand the household genre of music.

In the years, Glinka wrote well -known romances and songs: “Do not tempt me without need” on the words of E. Baratynsky, “Do not sing, beauty, with me” to the words of A. Pushkin and others. In the same years, he met the famous Vasily Zhukovsky, Alexander Griboedov and others. After traveling to the Caucasus, goes to Italy, Germany. Under the influence of the Italian composers of Bellini, Doniti Glinka changes her musical style.

Then they were working on a polyphony, composition, instrumentation.

Returning to Russia, Glinka with zeal worked on the national opera Ivan Susanin. Her premiere of the year at the Bolshoi Theater of St. Petersburg turned into a huge success. The premiere of the next opera Ruslan and Lyudmila in the year was no longer so loud. Strong criticism pushed the composer to leave, he left Russia, going to France, Spain, and only returned to his homeland in the year.

Many works in the biography of Mikhail Glinka were written during foreign trips. Since a year in St. Petersburg, he taught singing, prepared operas. Under his influence, Russian classical music was formed. Glinka left for Berlin in the year, where he died on February 15. The composer was buried in the Lutheran Trinity cemetery. His ashes were transported to St.

Petersburg and reburied there. Glinka’s songs and romances are also near he wrote 6 symphonic, several chamber-instrumental works, two operas. Glinka’s heritage for children includes romances, songs, symphonic fantasies, as well as the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, which became even more fabulous after her embodiment in music by a great composer. Musical critic V. Stasov briefly noticed that Glinka became for Russian music to what Alexander Pushkin became for the Russian language: they both created a new Russian language, but each in their field of art.

The Glinka Museum is located in the Novospassky village, in the composer's native estate. His name was also named by the State Academic Chapel in St. Petersburg. To success!