Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich
(1865–1936)> COMPOSER
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (10 August 1865, St. Petersburg; 21 March 1936, Paris), composer, began to study music at age nine, and he wrote his first symphony at age sixteen. His career began so early and in such a spectacular manner that his teacher Balakirev persuaded Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov to accept him as a student. It was not long before he became known to Parisians, who heard his music for the first time at the Paris Exhibition of 1889 . His international reputation was formally…