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<includeonly>Liturgy by Tchaikovsky performed at Russian church service</includeonly><noinclude> {{bibitem  |id=1958/48  |Contributors=Rabeneck, Nicolai (author) |Title=Liturgy by Tchaikovsky performed at Russian church service |In=Musical Courier [New York] |Part=Vol. 157 |Edition=February 1958 |Imprint=1958 |Extent=p. 16  |Format=Article |Language=English   }}   [[Category:Bibliography (1958)]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bibliography (1958/048)}}</noinclude>
{{picture|file=Mily Balakirev.jpg|caption='''Mily Balakirev''' (1836-1910)}}
Russian composer, pianist, conductor and civil servant (b. 21 December 1836/2 January 1837 in [[Nizhny Novgorod]]; d. 16/29 May 1910 in [[Saint Petersburg]]), born '''''Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev''''' (Милий Алексеевич Балакирев).
 
==Biography==
Balakirev briefly received music lessons from [[Aleksandr Dubuque]], before going on to study mathematics at university. After making the acquaintance of the composer [[Mikhail Glinka]] in [[Moscow]], he was inspired to take up music as a career. A staunch believer that Russia should have its own distinct school of music, free of western influences, he helped to found the Free Musical School in [[Petersburg]] in 1862, and gathered around himself a group of like-minded nationalist composers ([[César Cui]], [[Modest Musorgsky]], [[Aleksandr Borodin]], and [[Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov]]; collectively these became known as "The Mighty Handful" (Могучая Кучка) or "The Five".
 
==Tchaikovsky and Balakirev==
Balakirev's hopes that Tchaikovsky would become part of this nationalist circle were never realised, but it was at Balakirev's instigation that Tchaikovsky wrote the overture-fantasia ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1869), which Balakirev immediately persuaded the composer to revise, as well as arranging the publication of the new version through his contacts at [[Bote & Bock]] in [[Berlin]]. As a result of his increasing workload, Balakirev suffered a mental breakdown, and in 1872 he temporarily retired from the music world, taking up various clerical posts instead. Over the next few years he gradually returned to composition, and in 1881 he accepted an invitation to resume his directorship of the Free Music School. Two years later, he was appointed director of the Imperial Chapel Choir, where he worked alongside [[Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov]] until 1895. During this later period Balakirev sought out Tchaikovsky once more, and persuaded him to write the symphony ''[[Manfred]]'', Op. 58 (1885).
 
==Dedications==
Tchaikovsky dedicated three of his compositions to Mily Balakirev:
* ''[[Fatum]]'', symphonic poem, Op. 77 (1868)
* ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', overture-fantasia after [[Shakespeare]]'s tragedy, TH 42 (1869)
* ''[[Manfred]]'', symphony in four scenes after [[Byron]]'s dramatic poem, Op. 58 (1885).
 
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
47 letters from Tchaikovsky to Mily Balakirev have survived, dating from 1868 to 1891, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 111]]''' – 21 January/2 February 1868, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 114]]''' – 25 February/8 March 1868, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 115]]''' – 3/15 March 1868, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 123a]]''' – November 1868 (?), from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 126]]''' – 30 December 1868/11 January 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 132]]''' – between 16/28 February and 22 February/6 March 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 133]]''' – 13/25 March 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 134]]''' – 13/25 March 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 138]]''' – 3/15 May 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 151]]''' – 2/14 October 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 152]]''' – early/mid-October 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 156]]''' – 28 October/9 November 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 159]]''' – 17/29 November 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 168]]''' – 18/30 December 1869, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 170]]''' – 20 December 1869/1 January 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 172]]''' – after 24 December 1869/5 January 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 173]]''' – late December 1869/early January 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 180]]''' – 23 February/7 March 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 181]]''' – 25 February/9 March 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 191]]''' – between 10/22 and 14/26 May 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 192]]''' – 15/27 May 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 194]]''' – 1/13 June 1870, from [[Soden]]
* '''[[Letter 205]]''' – 6/18 September 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 207]]''' – 25 September/7 October 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 212]]''' – between 20 October/1 November and 23 October/4 November 1870, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 226]]''' – 10/22 January 1871, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 233]]''' – 15/27 May 1871, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 235]]''' – 29 May/10 June 1871, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 241]]''' – 8/20 October 1871, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 242]]''' – 22 October/3 November 1871, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 1848]]''' – 1/13 September 1881, from [[Kamenka]]
* '''[[Letter 2127]]''' – 8/20 October 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* '''[[Letter 2158]]''' – 12/24 November 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* '''[[Letter 2400]]''' – 14/26 December 1883, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 2572]]''' – 21 October/2 November 1884 (?), from [[Saint Petersburg]]
* '''[[Letter 2580]]''' – 31 October/12 November 1884, from [[Saint Petersburg]]
* '''[[Letter 2594]]''' – 17/29 November 1884, from [[Davos]]
* '''[[Letter 2611]]''' – 1/13 December 1884, from [[Paris]]
* '''[[Letter 2765]]''' – 13/25 September 1885, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 2768]]''' – 20 September/2 October–22 September/4 October 1885 (?), from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 2816]]''' – 21 November/3 December 1885, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 2824]]''' – 4/16 December 1885, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 2912]]''' – 13/25 March 1886, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 3197]]''' – 11/23 March 1887, from [[Saint Petersburg]]
* '''[[Letter 3722]]''' – 8/20 November 1888, from [[Saint Petersburg]]
* '''[[Letter 4491]]''' – 1/13 October 1891, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 4566]]''' – 29 November/11 December 1891, from [[Saint Petersburg]]
 
40 letters from Balakirev to Tchaikovsky have survived, dating from 1868 to 1891, of which 35 are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 145–179), 2 are in the Library of the {{RUS-SPk}}, 2 are in {{RUS-Mcl}} in [[Moscow]], and one is in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] (ф. 37-III-118).
 
==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1869/9}} (1869)
* {{bib|1869/11}} (1869)
* {{bib|1910/12}} (1910)
* {{bib|1911/8}} (1911)
* {{bib|1912/5}} (1912)
* {{bib|1912/12}} (1912)
* {{bib|1912/17}} (1912)
* {{bib|1912/18}} (1912)
* {{bib|1912/19}} (1912)
* {{bib|1912/36}} (1912)
* {{bib|1913/88}} (1913)
* {{bib|1940/29}} (1940)
* {{bib|1940/112}} (1940)
* {{bib|1961/6}} (1961)
* {{bib|1962/71}} (1962)
* {{bib|1969/19}} (1969)
* {{bib|1981/25}} (1981)
* {{bib|1981/66}} (1981)
* {{bib|1993/210}} (1993)
* {{bib|1994/5}} (1994)
* {{bib|1995/13}} (1995)
 
==External Links==
* [[wikipedia:Mily Balakirev|Wikipedia]]
* {{IMSLP|Balakirev,_Mily}}
* {{viaf|61730949}}
 
[[Category:People|Balakirev, Mily]]
[[Category:Composers|Balakirev, Mily]]
[[Category:Conductors|Balakirev, Mily]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Balakirev, Mily]]
[[Category:Dedicatees|Balakirev, Mily]]

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Mily Balakirev (1836-1910)

Russian composer, pianist, conductor and civil servant (b. 21 December 1836/2 January 1837 in Nizhny Novgorod; d. 16/29 May 1910 in Saint Petersburg), born Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev (Милий Алексеевич Балакирев).

Biography

Balakirev briefly received music lessons from Aleksandr Dubuque, before going on to study mathematics at university. After making the acquaintance of the composer Mikhail Glinka in Moscow, he was inspired to take up music as a career. A staunch believer that Russia should have its own distinct school of music, free of western influences, he helped to found the Free Musical School in Petersburg in 1862, and gathered around himself a group of like-minded nationalist composers (César Cui, Modest Musorgsky, Aleksandr Borodin, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov; collectively these became known as "The Mighty Handful" (Могучая Кучка) or "The Five".

Tchaikovsky and Balakirev

Balakirev's hopes that Tchaikovsky would become part of this nationalist circle were never realised, but it was at Balakirev's instigation that Tchaikovsky wrote the overture-fantasia Romeo and Juliet (1869), which Balakirev immediately persuaded the composer to revise, as well as arranging the publication of the new version through his contacts at Bote & Bock in Berlin. As a result of his increasing workload, Balakirev suffered a mental breakdown, and in 1872 he temporarily retired from the music world, taking up various clerical posts instead. Over the next few years he gradually returned to composition, and in 1881 he accepted an invitation to resume his directorship of the Free Music School. Two years later, he was appointed director of the Imperial Chapel Choir, where he worked alongside Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov until 1895. During this later period Balakirev sought out Tchaikovsky once more, and persuaded him to write the symphony Manfred, Op. 58 (1885).

Dedications

Tchaikovsky dedicated three of his compositions to Mily Balakirev:

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

47 letters from Tchaikovsky to Mily Balakirev have survived, dating from 1868 to 1891, all of which have been translated into English on this website:

40 letters from Balakirev to Tchaikovsky have survived, dating from 1868 to 1891, of which 35 are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 145–179), 2 are in the Library of the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, 2 are in Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow, and one is in the Russian National Museum of Music in Moscow (ф. 37-III-118).

Bibliography

External Links

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