
ABOUT
Prominent and passionate advocate of Russian music who was supportive of many Russian composers, including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.He and critic Vladimir Stasov took several future notables under their tutelage as part of a group called The Five, including Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.He and Anton Rubinstein were bitter rivals, both professionally and personally, disagreeing on musical techniques and preferences.
BEFORE FAMEHe continued the work of composer Mikhail Glinka by practicing the fusion of traditional folk music and experimental classical music.
PERSONAL LIFEHis family was impoverished, but his mother noticed her son's talents and began giving him lessons when he was four.
FUN FACTSPianist Mily Balakirev were born on Monday, birthstone is Garnet, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 362 days until Mily Balakirev next birthday.