Kamarinskaya

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Kamarinskaya is an 1848 orchestral work by Mikhail Glinka, often regarded as a pioneering piece in Russian symphonic music for its use of folk themes.

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instanceOf orchestral work
basedOn Russian folk music
catalogueStatus standalone orchestral fantasy
composer Mikhail Glinka NERFINISHED
composerNationality Russian
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
dateOfComposition 1848
dedicatedTo Nikolai Protasov NERFINISHED
describedBy Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the acorn from which the oak of Russian symphonic music grew
firstPerformanceLocation St. Petersburg NERFINISHED
genre classical music
orchestral music
programmatic music
hasPart lively dance section
slow bridal song section
historicalSignificance early model for Russian symphonic development
inception 1848
influenced Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky NERFINISHED
Russian nationalist school of composers
inMusicologicalLiterature cited as a landmark of Russian symphonic style
key G major
languageOfWork none (instrumental)
movementCount 1
notableFor influence on later Russian composers
pioneering use of Russian folk themes in symphonic music
orchestration symphony orchestra
partOf Russian symphonic repertoire
performancePractice often performed in symphonic concerts
period Romantic era
placeOfComposition Russia NERFINISHED
structure introduction and variations on two folk themes
style early Russian Romantic
tempoCharacteristic contrasting slow and fast sections
titleLanguage Russian
titleMeaning derived from the name of a Russian folk dance
usesTheme Russian folk song "Kamarinskaya" NERFINISHED
bridal song "Iz-za gor" NERFINISHED
workChronology composed after Glinka's operas "A Life for the Tsar" and "Ruslan and Lyudmila"

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Mikhail Glinka notableWork Kamarinskaya