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Glière

American  
[glyer] / glyɛr /

noun

  1. Reinhold Moritzovich 1875–1956, Russian composer.


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The family later moved to Kyiv, where Starykova studied at the renowned Glière Music College - but she always intended to move back to her hometown.

From BBC

He said he would remember his performance of the UK premiere of Glière's violin concerto at the Lighthouse "for the rest of his life".

From BBC

In one of the final performances of his career, he played a horn concerto by composer Reinhold Glière and told the Baltimore Sun that he “was very pleased with it.”

From Washington Post

In the Kneisel’s tradition of including detached movements from longer works, the Miró unleashed the earthy, Slavic swagger in a theme-and-variations from Glière’s String Quartet No. 1 and made a scherzo from Franck’s Quartet in D sound as if Mendelssohn’s “Midsummer” fairies had wandered into Wagner’s “Tristan.”

From Washington Post

The concert features the Miró Quartet and clarinetist Anthony McGill, and other works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Reinhold Glière.

From Washington Times