GLAZUNOV, ALEXANDER CONSTANTINOVICH (1865-1936), Russian composer, was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Aug. io, 1865, the son of a publisher and bookseller. He showed an early talent for music, and studied, on the advice of Balakirev, with Rimsky-Korsakov. At the age of sixteen he com posed a symphony (afterwards elaborated and published as op. 5), but his opus 1 was a quartet in D, followed by a pianoforte suite on S-a-c-h-a, the diminutive of his name Alexander. In 1884, helped to some extent by Liszt, he began to make a name outside Russia. His first symphony was played that year at Weimar, and he appeared as a conductor at the Paris exhibition in 1889. In 1897 he conducted his fourth and fifth symphonies in London. In 190o he became professor at the St. Petersburg conservatoire, and in 1906 director. Glazunov is a leading representative of the modern Russian school, and a master of orchestration though his tendency as compared with most contemporary Russian com posers is towards classical form. Nevertheless his music is full of colour, and, on occasion, descriptive. His fine ballet, Raymonda, shows that he also shares to the full the Russian love for oriental splendour and movement. In short if his leanings are classical he is a classicist a la Russe, and in any event, a great master of his art and craft. Of his many compositions, the most famous are perhaps, among the orchestral works, the noble sixth symphony, in C minor (op. 58) ; among those for solo instruments, the theme and variations for pianoforte (op. 72), and the fine violin concerto in A minor (op. 73) ; and among those for the stage (very few in number) the ballet Raymonda (op. 57), already mentioned.