Music

Alexander Glazunov

1865–1936Known worldwide

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

Created here
Mariinsky Theatre
His ballet Raymonda, choreographed by Marius Petipa, received its world premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre on 19 January 1898.
Performed here
Shostakovich Philharmonia Grand Hall
Long-time director of the St Petersburg Conservatory and a central figure of Petersburg concert life; major premieres and appearances took place in the Hall of the Nobility (today’s Philharmonia Grand Hall), including his conducting of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 1 premiere (1897).
Burial place
Tikhvin Cemetery
Died near Paris in 1936; remains were transferred to Tikhvin Cemetery in 1972, joining the composers’ necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

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