Mily Balakirev

Russia, 1855–1910

Leader and mentor of 'The Five' (the Mighty Handful). The virtuoso fantasy Islamey and a career spent forging a distinctly Russian school free of German academicism.

Influenced by

• Mikhail Glinka

Influenced

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Alexander Borodin
• Modest Mussorgsky
• César Cui
• Alexander Glazunov