1914 RUSSIAN MUSIC DOCUMENT COMPOSER GLAZUNOV AUTOGRAPH Start Price USD 535.00 Current Price USD 535.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, October 27, 2008 End Time Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Location Boston, MA See more about '1914 RUSSIAN MUSIC DOCUMENT COMPOSER GLAZUNOV AUTOGRAPH' Description YOU ARE BIDDING ON an original c. 1914 framed Imperial Russian Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) Music Conservatory graduation diploma hand-signed by a famous Russian composer ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV. Beautiful large professionally framed Imperial diploma dating to the first year of the WW1. The diploma is issued to a Jewish student Liba Goldenberg and is hand signed by all professors including the director of the Conservatory, Russian composer Alexander Glazunov. * Very good original condition, though showing horizonal creasing throughout. * Professionally framed with wooden frame, brown "velvet" matte and archival quality plexiglass * Size of the diploma: 16 in x 22 in (40 cm x 56 cm), size of the frame: 21 1/2 in x 27 1/2 in (55 cm x 70 cm) Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865 - 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher and conductor. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1906 and 1917 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued heading the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. Glazunov was significant in that he successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music. While he was the direct successor to Balakirev's nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin's epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences. These included Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral virtuosity, Tchaikovsky's lyricism and Taneyev's contrapuntal skill. His weaknesses were a streak of academicism which sometimes overpowered his inspiration and an eclecticism which could sap the ultimate stamp of originality from his music. Younger composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich eventually considered his music old-fashioned while also admitting he remained a composer with an imposing reputation and a stabilizing influence in a time of transition and turmoil. PLEASE READ INFORMATION BELOW BEFORE PLACING A BID: Shipping and Handling: $25 within USA, $60 - outside USA. Payment must be made in U.S. funds within 10 days of notification. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions before placing a bid. Item is shipped upon receipt of the payment, feedback left upon completion of the transaction. Signature of Alexander Glazunov in the middle Place a Bid!