Ne govori: lyubov proydoyot : Work information  Mikhail
Ivanovich Glinka ( Music, Images,) Performed by Alexander Paley
(Piano)  This work  Work name Ne govori: lyubov proydoyot Work
number 1834-00-00 02:00:00  This recording  Richard Kapp Mikhail
Liberman Recording date 1992-10-01 01:00:00  The Composers
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka  Mikhail Glinka led an excessively
sheltered childhood, and his early exposure to music was very
narrow; the chants sung at church, the folksongs his nurse sang
and the sound of the bells of the Smolensk region in which he
lived.  All three were influential - the early assimilation of
folk music led to him becoming one of the first Russian
nationalist composers and, as with Bohuslav Martinu, the
resonant overtones of the bells led to an uncommon tolerance of
dissonance.  Once exposed to Western music he developed a deep
love for it, which he was able to pursue at school in St
Petersburg, where he boarded from 1817.  A patchy musical
education was enhanced by three lessons from John