Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка ; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1857 ) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.
 Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music.
Cleopatra (French: Cléopâtre ) is a dramatic ballet in one act, with choreography and libretto by Michel Fokine, and music by Anton Arensky, Alexander Taneyev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Glazunov, Modeste Mussorgsky, Nikolai Tcherepnin.
Grazioso is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by Peter Martins, its balletmaster-in-chief, to music by Mikhail Glinka.
 The premiere took place at City Ballet's fall gala on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.
Louise Ochsé was a Franco-Belgian sculptor born in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium, at the end of the 19th century.
 Initially she studied under Constantin Meunier.
 She moved to Paris and exhibited her works at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts between 1905 and 1914 and at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique from 1906 to 1912.
 On the occasion of her exhibit at the Galerie Boutet de Monvel in 1912, the poet and writer Guillaume Apollinaire praised her work.
 Examples of her art include a bust of Maurice Ravel which now is exhibited at the composer Maurice Ravel museum in the town of Montfort-L'Amaury, outside of Paris, and a bronze mask of composer Claude Debussy which was exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay October 2008 to February 2009.
 A bronze plaque entitled "Challenge de Gramont" is on display at the Fogg Museum.
Viktor Alekseyevich Selyavin Russian: Виктор Алексеевич Селявин (1875–1945) was a leading tenor of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.
 He is often referred to as Odessa's Sobinov, a reference to Leonid Sobinov, one of the best known Russian tenors of the first half of the twentieth century.
 His repertoire included the tenor roles of most major operas, but he is best known for his interpretation of Lensky in "Eugene Onegin".
 He also performed in chamber music, being especially fond of Mikhail Glinka's and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's romances.
Joseph Maurice Ravel (] ; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
 He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term.
 In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Kamarinskaya (Russian: камаринская ) is a Russian traditional folk dance, which is mostly known today as the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka's composition of the same name.
 Glinka's "Kamarinskaya", written in 1848, was the first orchestral work based entirely on Russian folk song and to use the compositional principles of that genre to dictate the form of the music.
 It became a touchstone for the following generation of Russian composers ranging from the Western-oriented Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to the group of nationalists known collectively as The Five and was also lauded abroad, most notably by French composer Hector Berlioz.
A Life for the Tsar (Russian: Жизнь за царя , "Zhizn' za tsarya"), as it is known in English, although in Soviet times its name was "Ivan Susanin" (Russian: Иван Сусанин ) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka.
 The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Egor Fyodorovich (von) Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky.
 It premiered on 27 November 1836 OS (9 December NS) at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg.
 The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who gave his life in the expulsion of the invading Polish army for the newly elected Tsar Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, elected in 1613.
The Great Glinka (Russian: Глинка , "Glinka " ) is a 1946 Soviet biopic film directed by Lev Arnshtam.
 The film is about Mikhail Glinka, a Russian composer of the 19th century.
 The film was awarded the Stalin Prize of II degree (1947) and it was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
Nestor Vasilievich Kukolnik (Russian: Нестор Васильевич Кукольник ) (1809–1868) was a Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin.
 Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works were subsequently dismissed as sententious and sentimental.
 Today, he is best remembered for having contributed to the libretto of the first Russian opera, "A Life for the Tsar" by Mikhail Glinka.
 Glinka also set many of his lyrics to music.

Question: Who was born first, Maurice Ravel or Mikhail Glinka?
Answer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka