Course 1 - Russian Classical Music of the 19th Century

The Five  -  Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin. They lived in Saint Petersburg, and collaborated from 1856 to 1870 with the goal of developing a distinctively Russian classical music.

Mikhail Glinka  (1804–1857)

Alexander Dargomyzhsky  (1813–1869)  The Stone Guest  (1782)

Alexander Borodin  (1833–1887)

Mily Balakirev  (1837–1910)

Modest Mussorgsky  (1839–1881)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  (1840–1893)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov  (1844–1908)

Sergei Taneyev  (1856–1916)

Anton Arensky  (1861–1906)

Alexander Glazunov  (1865–1936)

Vladimir Rebikov  (1866–1920)  The Christmas Tree  (1894 - 1902)