Glazunov, Alexander

Alexander Glazunov was born in Saint Petersburg in 1865 and died in Paris in 1936. Alexander Glazunov was a Russian composer. He remained head of the conservatory until 1930, even though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. Between 1905 and 1928, he was the director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and was significantly involved in the restructuring of the institution into the Petrograd Conservatory and subsequently, after the Bolshevik Revolution, into the Leningrad Conservatory. The most famous student of his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich. Recordings and performances continue to make this music readily accessible to new generations worldwide. His distinct musical legacy lives on.