Glazunov

Or Gla·zu·noff

[glaz-uh-nawf, -nof, gluh-zoo-nawf]

noun

1. Alexander Konstantinovitch 1865–1936, Russian composer.

Glazunov

/ ɡləzuˈnɔf, ˈɡlæzʊnɒf /

noun

1. Aleksandr Konstantinovich (alɪkˈsandr kənstanˈtinəvitʃ). 1865–1936, Russian composer, in France from 1928. A pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, he wrote eight symphonies and concertos for piano and for violin among other works

Example Sentences

A company premiere, “Pas de Dix,” set to Alexander Glazunov’s lively score, was staged by the former New York City Ballet principal Kyra Nichols.

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“I am afraid Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov might hear of it,” the composer wrote, “and make use of the new effect before I could.”

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Paired with “The Dream” was Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Seasons,” an ambitious production teetering between lively and overstuffed, set to Alexander Glazunov.

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This is a classical showcase, set to Glazunov and inspired by “The Sleeping Beauty,” in which the ceremonial dancing of seven couples frames seven solos for ballerinas.

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Other soloists included the saxophonist Steven Banks, who radiated mellow glamour in the long lines of a Glazunov concerto; the violinist Augustin Hadelich, who dug into the raw strangeness of Ravel’s “Tzigane” and drew out the warm midrange of his Guarneri violin in a relative rarity by Boulogne; and the violinist Joshua Bell, who played pieces by Florence Price and Henri Vieuxtemps in a concert I missed led by Jonathon Heyward, who will become the first Black music director of the Baltimore Symphony in 2023.

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