The New Grove Russian Masters, I
Subtitle: Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Musorgsky, Tchaikovsky (The New Grove Series)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780393315851
First sentence: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the father of the 19th-century Russian nationalist school of composers, and exerted a profound and freely acknowledged influence upon Balakirev and his circle and upon Tchaikovsky.