Created by Frederick Ashton to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Birthday Offering is a one-act divertissement for seven ballerinas and their partners, and includes...
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Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936). Russian composer, musician and teacher
Russian composer Alexander Glazunov studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from a young age, writing his first Symphony The Slavic Symphony, inspired by Russian folk melodies, at the age of 16. A successor of the great Russian composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, his work lies awkwardly between the expansive lyrical scoring of the late 19th Century and the revolutionary modernism of Serge Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich. This ‘middle ground’ can be seen particularly in Glazunov’s ballet music, including his collaborations with choreographer Marius Petipa on Raymonda and The Seasons (1900).
Timeline Event » 1966 – The Royal Ballet Touring Company dances Act III of Marius Petipa’s Raymonda for the first time
Marius Petipa’s Raymonda was originally performed by the Imperial Russian Ballet in St Petersburg in 1898 to music by Alexander Glazunov. Rudolf Nureyev staged the full-length Raymonda for The...