FTP, name this Russian composer of eight symphonies and the ballet The Seasons.
An early corpus of dance music by this composer attempts to sample all national styles and is known as the Suite Caractéristique. In one work by this composer, the Countess Sybille points to a statue called the White Lady, and in accordance with tradition several presents are laid by the statue, including those of the Saracen knight Abderakhman. Following the premiere of this man's Second Symphony dedicated to Liszt at the Paris World Exhibition, he fell into a crisis of creativity until publication of that ballet Raymonda. He became director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1905 and re-wrote the overture from Prince Igor from memory to facilitate the project of finishing Mussorgsky's works, along with his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov. FTP, name this Russian composer of eight symphonies and the ballet The Seasons.
An early corpus of dance music by this composer attempts to sample all national styles and is known as the Suite Caractéristique.
Aleksander Konstantinovich {Glazunov}