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Glazunov

Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936) was a Russian composer who studied with Rimsky-Korsakov from the age of fifteen and had his First Symphony performed publicly at sixteen. When Alexander Borodin died suddenly in 1887, leaving Prince Igor unfinished, Glazunov reconstructed the entire overture from memory, having heard Borodin play it through on the piano; with Rimsky-Korsakov he completed the rest of the opera, an extraordinary act of musical recall and collegial devotion. He served as director of the St Petersburg Conservatory from 1905 and remained in Russia after the Revolution before eventually settling in Paris in 1928. His Violin Concerto in A minor remains the most frequently performed of his works.

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