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3 unusual facts about Reinhold Glière


Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR

To be distinguished from the Glinka Award (of 500 rubles) won in 1904 by Rachmaninov, and three times by Reinhold Glière.

Ninel Kurgapkina

She graduated her ballet school and joined the Kirov Ballet in 1947, where she danced such roles as Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Myrtha (Giselle), Odette-Odile (Swan Lake), Kitri (Don Quixote) and Parasha (The Bronze Horseman).

Reinhold Glière

He was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier (1834–1896) from Saxony (Klingenthal), who emigrated to the Russian Empire and married Józefa (Josephine) Korczak (1849–1935), the daughter of his master, from Warsaw, Poland.


Zdeněk Mácal

In 1995, he made Dolby Surround recordings of the Symphony No. 2 in C minor and the suite from the ballet The Red Poppy by Reinhold Glière.


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