The famous Russian composer Mikhail Glinka is widely known throughout the world. This brilliant man felt music as few could, and even during his lifetime he enjoyed loud fame both in the Russian Empire and far beyond its borders. In the biography of M. I. Glinka there are quite a few interesting moments that allow you to make a picture of his personality, that he was a man.
The great composer came from a noble family, and he had both Russian and Polish roots. The imperious grandmother of Mikhail Glinka the first six years of his life brought him up herself, not allowing even his own mother to interfere in this process. Glinka began studying music for the first time at the age of 10. He was taught to play the piano and violin. Glinka’s work influenced such famous composers as Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky. While still quite young, he sometimes led his uncle’s orchestra, and he himself tried to compose music. Creating many musical works, Glinka all the time felt that it was not that, and that he could do more than shift the music to poems of famous poets. This fact is reflected in the biography of the composer.
He was fluent in six foreign languages. In his youth, Mikhail Glinka traveled a lot in Europe, visiting Italy, Germany, Austria and many other countries. In his journey, he became acquainted with the music of different nations, absorbed it and studied. Throughout his life, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was friends with Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. At 32, he wrote his first opera. She was staged at the Bolshoi Theater of St. Petersburg. Do not confuse it with the fact that in Moscow – the Petersburg theater was closed long ago, and to this day has not survived. At one time, Glinka had a relationship with Catherine Kern, the daughter of Anna Kern, whom Pushkin called his muse.
Among the little-known facts about Glinka is the fact that he was a great singer, especially in his youth. True, he subsequently did not develop his singing talent, and he did not perform in public. Married composer was once. His wife secretly married another man, and the long divorce proceedings began for years. Subsequently, Mikhail Ivanovich no longer married. Despite the success, the work of Glinka was often criticized. This, as reflected in his biography, motivated the composer to constantly conquer new heights, to travel and improve his skills. One of Glinka’s closest friends was the famous Odoyevsky. Throughout his life, the composer was distinguished by poor health. For a long time Glinka worked on the symphony “Taras Bulba”, but he never finished it.
The wife of Mikhail Ivanovich was his distant relative. Glinka’s famous opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila” was coolly received by the public. Emperor Nicholas I left the room at all, without listening to the end, which dealt a sensitive blow to Glinka’s pride. The great composer died in Berlin, where he was buried. Later, at the insistence of relatives, his ashes were transported to St. Petersburg and reburied again. Now on the site of the first grave of Glinka in Berlin stands a monument dedicated to him.
