Mily Balakirev - age: 73

Mily Balakirev

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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 FAME

He continued the work of composer Mikhail Glinka by practicing the fusion of traditional folk music and experimental classical music.

PERSONAL LIFE

His family was impoverished, but his mother noticed her son's talents and began giving him lessons when he was four.

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Pianist 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.

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