After Gavriil Lomakin resigned as the director of the Free School of Music, this man, the inspiration behind the school's existence, took his place.
This man was the dedicatee and first conductor of Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem "Fatum." The second movement of his second symphony is played close to the fast tempo of the first movement and begins with a snare drum roll, and that symphony was supposedly completed in just weeks. After Gavriil Lomakin resigned as the director of the Free School of Music, this man, the inspiration behind the school's existence, took his place. This man also composed a piece which describes an evil princess who lures travellers to a castle on the river Terek before killing them and throwing them in the river, his tone poem Tamara. For 10 points, name this composer most famous for a work based on three themes from the Caucasus, an extremely difficult "Oriental Fantasy" called Islamey and the leader of the Mighty Handful.
This man was the dedicatee and first conductor of Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem "Fatum.
Mily {Balakirev}