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MICHAEL IVANOVICH GLINKA (1803-18s7)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 123 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL IVANOVICH See also:GLINKA (1803-18s7)  , See also:Russian musical composer, was See also:born at Novospassky, a See also:village in the See also:Smolensk See also:government, on the and of See also:June 1803 . His See also:early See also:life he spent at See also:home, but at the See also:age of thirteen we find him at the Blagorodrey See also:Pension, St See also:Petersburg, where he studied See also:music under Carl Maier and See also:John See also:Field, the Irish composer and pianist, who had settled in See also:Russia . We are told that in his seventeenth See also:year he had already begun to compose romances and other See also:minor vocal pieces; but of these nothing now is known . His thorough musical training did not begin till the year 183o, when he went abroad and stayed for three years in See also:Italy, to study the See also:works of old and See also:modern See also:Italian masters .. His thorough knowledge of the requirements of the See also:voice may be connected with this course of study . His training as a composer was finished, under the contrapuntist Dehn, with whom See also:Glinka stayed for several months at See also:Berlin . In 1833 he returned to Russia, and devoted himself to operatic See also:composition .

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