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Reinhold Moritzovich Glière (Russian: Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр, Rejngol'd Moricevič Glièr) (January 11 [O.S. 30 December 1874] 1875 – June 23, 1956) was a Soviet composer of German-Polish descent. Glière was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier (1834-1896) from Saxony, who emigrated to Kiev and married Józefa (Josephine) Korczak (1849-1935) the daughter of his master, from Warsaw (Poland). His original name, as given in his baptism certificate, was Reinhold Ernst Glier. About 1900 he changed the spelling and pronunciation of his surname to Glière, which gave rise to the legend, stated by L. Sabaneev for the first time (1927), of his French or Belgian descent. He was born in Kiev. Glière entered the Kiev school of music in 1891, where he was taught violin by Otokar Sevcik among others. In 1894 Glière entered the Moscow conservatory where he studied with Sergei Taneev (counterpoint), Michail Ippolitov-Ivanov (composition), Jan Hrimaly (violin), Antoni Arenskij and Georgi Konjus (both harmony). He graduated in 1900 having composed a one act opera 'Earth and Heaven' (after G.G. Byron) and receiving a gold medal in composition. In the following year Glière accepted a teaching post at the Moscow Gnesin school of music. Taneev found two private pupils for him in 1902: Nikolai Mjaskovskij and the eleven-year old Sergei Prokofiev, who Glière taught on Prokofiev's parental estate Sontsovka. Glière studied conducting with Oskar Fried in Berlin from 1905 to 1

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