The New Grove Russian Masters, I
Subtitle: Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Musorgsky, Tchaikowvsky (New Grove Biography Series)
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: June 1986
Number of pages: 2
ISBN-13: 9780393301021
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.