Biography

Reinhold Glière is Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, music and social activist. People's Artist of the USSR.

Glière got his initial musical education at home (violin lessons from A. Weinberg, C. Voute). In 1894 he graduated from the Kyiv Musical College and entered the Moscow Conservatory in the class of violin. In 1900 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (he went through a course of polyphony with Sergey Taneyev, harmony with A. Arenskiy and G. Konus, class composition Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov), in 1906-1908 he took conducting lessons from O. Fried in Germany. In the years 1902-1903 he gave private lessons to Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev. From 1908 he performed as a conductor with the performance of mainly his own works.

As the composer Glière was formed largely due to communication with Aleksandr Glazunov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1913-1920 - Professor of the Kyiv Conservatory, in 1914-1920, the director of the Conservatory, as well as the head of the opera, orchestral, chamber and instrumental classes. In the late 1930s, as well as in 1947 and 1950, he embarked on several touring tours around the USSR, giving author concerts.
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Won Stalin Prize in 1950.

He was teacher of Sergei Prokofiev and 'Nikolai Miaskovsky'.

Born in 1875 to German father and Ukrainian-Polish mother, in Kyiv. His original name in baptismal certificate was Reingold Ernst Glier. He later misspelled his name as Glière on purpose because he did not want to be labeled as German at the time of the wars against Germany (WWI and WWII). However, he used his original name spelling in all Russian publications - Reingold Glier.

The only Russian composer who has been three times awarded the most prestigious music award in pre-revolutionary Russia.