Has anybody ever hear of Reinhold Moritsevich Gliere.

[contrapunctus]

I just heard one of this guy's ballet suites, and it was awesome. Does anybody know more about him, like if he wrote any piano music.

[pianojems]

Of course... he's a Wonderful romantic Russian composer who wrote some really nice chamber and piano music

[ptmidwest]

YES!  He wrote some lovely smaller pieces, and several are intermediate and upper-intermediate level.

I think students tend to prefer them to the Heller pieces, but they are both great prep for Chopin.

[Bob]

He wrote a concerto for voice that's good for listening.

[chozart]

of course
I love Gliere
I used to play several of his works, the last of which was a waltz (I played it about 3 years ago), with which I redeemed myself during my first ever recital.
If you'd like I'll try to find the sheet music, and I also have another piece of his lying around somewhere..

[mlsmithz]

I don't know about Gliere's piano music, but he was practically worshipped as a god by my high school orchestra for penning 'The Red Poppy' and, specifically, the Russian Sailor's Dance from said work, a simplified and transposed version of which we often played as an encore.  It's probably his most popular piece, though you wouldn't have a difficult time convincing me there are better Gliere works (I was never very fond of it myself - not enough variation of the theme in the variations, I thought).