His best-known work sees one title character rescue the other from Chernomor.
This composer wrote a work for clarinet, bassoon, and piano that today is more often played by cello, violin, and piano, and he set Russian Orthodox liturgy to music in The Cherubic Hymn. A wedding song and a folk tune are separated by 10 As in the first violins in this man's piece Kamarinskaya, while a trip abroad inspired Jota Aragonesa and Summer Night in (*) Madrid, his two Spanish Overtures. A kidnapping perpetrated by Farlaf is central to one of this man's operas, while another depicts the patriotic self-sacrifice of Ivan Susanin. His best-known work sees one title character rescue the other from Chernomor. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila.
This composer wrote a work for clarinet, bassoon, and piano that today is more often played by cello, violin, and piano, and he set Russian Orthodox liturgy to music in The Cherubic Hymn.
Mikhail Ivanovich {Glinka}