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The Ballets of Alexander Glazunov
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ISBN: 1443846880 9781443846882 9781443840118 1443840114 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936), the Russian composer, is principally associated with his first ballet Raymonda, the apex of his cooperation with the great choreographer Marius Petipa, then in the last years of his illustrious career. Raymonda is still performed in Russia and intermittently in the West. Glazunov, a precocious musical talent from his childhood, was regarded as the inheritor of the Russian nationalist ideals. However, he soon turned to absolute forms of music, ra...

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