Reinhold gliere bio

His original name, as given in his baptism certificate, was Reinhold Ernest Glier.

Reinhold Moritsevich Glière, second son of Ernst Moritz Glier and Josephine Kortschak was born in Kiev.

He graduated in , having composed a one-act opera Earth and Heaven after Lord Byron and received a gold medal in composition. In , he gained an appointment to the school of music in Kiev, which was raised to the status of conservatory shortly after, as Kiev Conservatory. A year later he was appointed director. For some years he held positions in the organization Proletkul't and worked with the People's Commissariat for Education.

The theatre was in the centre of his work now. The result of his ethnographical research was the opera Shakh-Senem , now considered the cornerstone of the Soviet-Azerbaijan national opera tradition. Here the musical legacy of the Russian classics from Glinka to Scriabin is combined with folk song material and some symphonic orientalisms.

In , inspired by the ballerina Yekaterina Vasilyevna Geltzer — , he wrote the music for the ballet Krasny mak The Red Poppy , later revised, to avoid the connotation of opium , as Krasny tsvetok The Red Flower , The Red Poppy was praised "as the first Soviet ballet on a revolutionary subject". This is perhaps his most famous work in Russia as well as abroad.

One number from the score, his arrangement of a Russian folk chastushka song Yablochko "little apple" consists of an introduction, a basso statement of the theme, and a series of increasingly frenetic variations ending with a powerful orchestral climax.

Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (11 January [O.S.

It is identified in the ballet score by its almost equally well-known name, the Russian Sailor's Dance. It is probably his best-known single piece, and is still heard at symphony concerts around the world, frequently as an encore. The ballet-pantomime Chrizis was revised just after The Red Poppy , in the late s, followed by the popular ballet Comedians after Lope de Vega , later re-written and renamed The Daughter from Castile.

He gave concerts in Siberia and other remote areas of Russia instead. He was working in Uzbekistan as a "musical development helper" at the end of the s.