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Reinhold Glière 1875–1956

Reinhold Glière, on 23 June, in Russia, aged eighty-one. Of Belgian descent but Russian upbringing, he studied in Kiev and Moscow, where he soon allied himself to the ‘westernizing’ school of Tchaikovsky and Arensky, whose pupil he was. After the Revolution he specialized in ‘regionalist’ music, first Azerbaijanian and later Uzbek. Among his pupils were Prokofiev, Khachaturyan and Miaskovsky.

Musical Times, August 1956