ABSTRACT
The cause of Russian national music received a great impetus when a sixteen-year-old boy, in the uniform of the Technical High School of St. Petersburg (all schoolboys wore uniforms in old Russia), appeared on the podium in the concert hall of the Nobility Assembly. He acknowledged the warm applause that greeted the first performance of his Symphony in E Major, conducted by Mily Balakirev. The boy’s name was Sascha Glazunov, or more formally, Alexander Konstantinovitch Glazunov.
