Balakirev
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Balakirev decided to stay and start a real estate agency.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023
Saturday night’s concert draws on the conductor Leon Botstein’s uncommon breadth of interests, with music by Tchaikovsky, Balakirev and Serov, as well as Taneyev’s Symphony No. 4 and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Piano Concerto.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2018
On May 22, "The Mighty Five" offers a grouping of composers drawing on Russian folk idiom, including Balakirev, Cui, Borodin, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2011
His first love was the colouristic virtuosity of composers such as Balakirev, Busoni, Scriabin and Rachmaninov, some of the most difficult piano music ever written.
From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2010
Critical Essays on the most important of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas, Borodin's "Prince Igor," Dargom�zhsky's "Stone Guest," etc.; with chapters on Glinka, Mussorgsky, Balakirev and Tcha�kovsky.
From The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Buck, Dudley
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