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Russian Romantic composer Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857) is considered the founder of that nation's nationalist music movement. He had considerable influence on Balakirev, who founded The Five, and his opera A Life for the Tsar was the first to delve deeply into Russia's folk music.

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• Classic Cat: Glinka

  http://www.classiccat.net/glinka_m/
  Directory of mp3s on the internet that have been made available by their performing artists.

• Classical Archives: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

  http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/7393.html
  Biography and music files offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats.

• Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804 - 1857)

  http://www.naxos.com/person/Mikhail_Ivanovich_Glinka/26063.htm
  Brief biography and summaries of his operas and orchestral music with recommended recordings.

• Grave of Mikhail Glinka

  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=360&GRid=4352&
  Picture of tombstone with link to list of other notable interments in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery cemetery in St. Petersburg. From Find a Grave.

• Michael (Mikhael) Glinka

  http://musicalics.com/en/node/79732
  Summary list of noted works, life history, and portrait at Musicalics.

• Mikhail Glinka

  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322883/
  Filmography noting movies and television programs based on or using his works from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

  http://www.everynote.com/Glinka/49.html
  Sheet music downloads for the founder of Russian nationalist music and biography with portrait from Every Note. Score samples in PDF format; full scores require payment.

• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

  http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=4197
  Songs and cycles with transliterated and Cyrillic texts, some with English translations. From the Lied and Art Song Texts Page at REC Music.

• The Father of Russian Music: Mikhail Glinka

  http://humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=117
  Brief biography from Humanities Web with selected works, portrait, quotations, discography, suggested reading, additional resources, chronology, and related articles.

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