Balakirev

American  

[buh-lah-kuh-ruhf, buh-lah-kyir-yif] / bəˈlɑ kə rəf, bəˈlɑ kyɪr yɪf /

noun

1. Mili Alekseevich 1837–1910, Russian composer.

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Balakirev British  

/ baˈlakirɪf /

noun

1. Mily Alexeyevich (ˈmilij alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1837–1910, Russian composer, whose works include two symphonic poems, two symphonies, and many arrangements of Russian folk songs

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Example Sentences

And let’s not forget those 19th-century Russians—no one else lends Mily Balakirev’s Symphony No. 1 the verve Beecham does.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dmitri Balakirev, who worked in tech in the Ural Mountains, left Russia because he opposed the war, he said, and went to Dubai because he had visited it previously thanks to direct flights from his city.

From New York Times

Mr. Balakirev decided to stay and start a real estate agency.

From New York Times

Along with César Cui, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin was a member of “The Five” — a group of 19th-century Russian composers who sought to showcase and foreground Russian musical traditions rather than obscure them beneath the veneer of Western classicism.

From Washington Post

Pianist Olga Kern has put together a program so nice — works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Beethoven, Scarlatti, Balakirev and Gershwin — she’ll play it twice, first down in Orange County, then the next night in Santa Monica.

From Los Angeles Times