Mikhail Glinka: Sheet music to download and print

Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) is considered the father of Russian music, and exerted a significant influence on later Russian composers such as "the mighty handful" (see Balakirev), Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
He studied for a time in Italy and Berlin absorbing contemporary composition techniques. Returning to Russia, he discovered the works of writers such as Pushkin and Gogol, who made him realise the wealth of his Russian cultural heritage and inspired him to write what would become one of the great Russian classics, the opera A Life for the Tsar. It combined Russian and Polish folk tunes with the procedures of Italian and French opera. Glinka’s second opera, Ruslan and Lyudmila, was not as immediately successful, but ultimately more influential. It contained Persian influences and made use of a seven-step whole-tone scale for the first time in European music.
Throughout his life Glinka wrote piano music (variation sets, various dances et cetera) which can come rather close to Chopin's sound world, probably because of the two composers' common roots in the music of John Field.

Total pieces by Glinka: 2

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