The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804–57),
Russian composer. The history of Russian art music begins with Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Sussanin), in 1836; in addition to its patriotic story, it was the first major composition to employ themes from Russian folk music. His second opera, Russlan and Ludmilla (1842), also rich in folk themes, established the Russian national style. The story, from a poem by Pushkin based on a Russian folk tale, relates how the Duke of Kiev's daughter Ludmilla is kidnapped by the evil flying dwarf Chernomor and rescued by the knight Russlan with his magic sword.

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