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Witold Maliszewski (; 20 July 1873 Mohyliv - Podilskyi , ___MASK73___ , now Ukraine  18 July 1939 , Zalesie , Poland ), was a Polish composer , first Rector and founder of Odessa Conservatory and professor at ___MASK17___ Conservatory . Mitrofan Petrovich Belyayev ( Russian :          ; old style 10 / 22 February 1836 , St . ___MASK7___ -- 22 December 1903 / 4 January 1904 ) was an ___MASK16___ Russian music publisher , outstanding philanthropist , and the owner of a large wood dealership enterprise in Russia . He was also the founder of the Belyayev circle , a society of musicians in Russia whose members included Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov , Alexander Glazunov and Anatoly Lyadov . His surname is often transliterated as Belaieff or Belayev . In 1886 the important Russian painter Ilya Repin made a portrait of Belyayev . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the ___MASK24___ ___MASK77___ to the north , the ___MASK37___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . ___MASK28___ , colloquially shortened to Nizhny , is a city in the administrative center of ___MASK35___ and Volga Federal District in Russia . From 1932 to 1990 , it was known as Gorky , after the writer Maxim Gorky , who was born there . The city is an important economic , transportation , scientific , educational and cultural center in Russia and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region , and is the main center of river tourism in Russia . In the historical part of the city there are a large number of universities , theaters , museums and churches . ___MASK28___ is located about 400 km east of Moscow , where the Oka empties into the Volga . Population : ___MASK90___ is Russia ' s second - largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in 2012 , and an important Russian port on the Baltic Sea . It is politically incorporated as a federal subject ( a federal city ). Situated on the Neva River , at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea , it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914 , the name was changed from ___MASK90___ to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to ___MASK90___ . Between 1713  1728 and 1732  1918 , ___MASK90___ was the imperial capital of Russia . In 1918 , the central government bodies moved to Moscow . Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin ( Russian :    ;  26 June 1945 ) was a Russian composer , pianist , and conductor . He was born in ___MASK90___ and studied under Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov at the ___MASK90___ Conservatory . He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev ' s Ballets Russes . Ilya Yefimovich Repin ( 29 September 1930 ) was a Russian realist painter . He was the ___MASK61___ renowned Russian artist of the 19th century , when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature . He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture . His major works include " Barge Haulers on the Volga " ( 1873 ), " Religious Procession in Kursk Province " ( 1883 ) and " Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks " ( 1880  91 ). ___MASK31___ Vyacheslavovich Ossovsky ( July 31 , 1957 ) was a renowned Russian musical writer , critic and musicologist , professor at ___MASK90___ Conservatory , pupil of Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov , and friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff , ___MASK31___ Siloti and Nikolai Tcherepnin . Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra ( or , more loosely , for any musical ensemble , such as a concert band ) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra . Also called " instrumentation ", orchestration is the selection of different instruments to play the different parts ( e . g ., melody , bassline , etc .) of a musical work . For example , a work for solo piano could be adapted and orchestrated so that an orchestra could perform the piece . Only gradually over the course of music history did orchestration come to be regarded as a separate compositional art in itself . In classical music , ___MASK61___ composers write the melodies , chord progression and musical form for a piece and , then , if they want the piece to be played by an orchestra , they orchestrate the piece themselves . In musical theatre , however , the composer typically writes the melodies and then hires a professional arranger or orchestrator to devise the parts for the pit orchestra to play . Russian Easter Festival Overture : Overture on Liturgical Themes , Op . 36 , also known as the Great Russian Easter Overture , is a concert overture written by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov between ___MASK30___ 1887 and April 1888 . It was dedicated to the memories of Modest Mussorgsky and ___MASK31___ Borodin , two members of the group of composers known in English as " The Five ". It is the last of what many call his three most exceptionally brilliant orchestral works , preceded by " Capriccio Espagnol " and " Scheherazade ". The work received its premiere at a Russian symphony concert in St . Petersburg in late December 1888 . ___MASK84___ is not proportionately populated between the smaller western portion ( almost 25 %) of the country that is considered part of Europe , and the larger eastern portion ( more than 75 %) that is part of ___MASK22___ . European ___MASK84___ contains about 77 % of the country ' s population ( 110 , 000 , 000 people out of about 144 , 000 , 000 ) in an area comprising almost 4 million km ( 1 . 54 million mi ); an average of 27 . 5 persons per km ( 70 per mi ). This territory makes up 38 % of Europe . Its eastern border is defined by the Ural Mountains and in the south , it is defined by the border with ___MASK93___ . This area includes Moscow and ___MASK90___ , the two largest cities in ___MASK84___ . Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky - Korsakov was a Russian composer , and a member of the group of composers known as The Five . He was a master of orchestration . His ___MASK74___ - known orchestral compositions " Capriccio Espagnol ", the " Russian Easter Festival Overture ", and the symphonic suite " Scheherazade " are staples of the classical music repertoire , along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas . " Scheherazade " is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects . The Belyayev circle was a society of Russian musicians who met in ___MASK90___ , Russia between 1885 and 1908 , and whose members included Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov , Alexander Glazunov , Vladimir Stasov , Anatoly Lyadov , Alexander Ossovsky , Witold Maliszewski , Nikolai Tcherepnin , Nikolay Sokolov , Alexander Winkler among others . The circle was named after Mitrofan Belyayev , a timber merchant and amateur musician who became a music philanthropist and publisher after hearing the music of the teenage Glazunov . Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (; 9 ___MASK30___ ___MASK26___ ) was a Russian pianist and composer of the Soviet period , he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century . Shostakovich achieved fame in the Soviet Union under the patronage of Soviet chief of staff Mikhail Tukhachevsky , but later had a complex and difficult relationship with the government . Nevertheless , he received accolades and state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR ( 1947  1962 ) and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union ( from 1962 until his death ). A polystylist , Shostakovich developed a hybrid voice , combining a variety of different musical techniques into his works . His music is characterized by sharp contrasts , elements of the grotesque , and ambivalent tonality ; the composer was also heavily influenced by the neo - classical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky , and ( especially in his symphonies ) by the post - Romanticism associated with Gustav Mahler . Shostakovich ' s orchestral works include 15 symphonies and six concerti . His chamber output includes 15 string quartets , a piano quintet , two piano trios , and two pieces for string octet . His solo piano works include two sonatas , an early set of preludes , and a later set of 24 preludes and fugues . Other works include three operas , several song cycles , ballets , and a substantial quantity of film music ; especially well known is " The Second Waltz ", Op . 99 , music to the film "" ( 1955  1956 ), as well as the suites of music composed for " The Gadfly ". ___MASK75___ , alternatively romanised as " Ekaterinburg ", is the fourth - largest city in ___MASK84___ and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast , located in the middle of the Eurasian continent , on the border of Europe and ___MASK22___ . At the 2010 Census , it had a population of 1 , 349 , 772 . Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and ___MASK22___ . The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents . Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres , it is bordered by the ___MASK37___ to the west , the Pacific Ocean to the east , the Arctic Ocean to the north , and by Africa , the Mediterranean Sea , and the Indian Ocean to the south . The division between Europe and ___MASK22___ as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct , with no clear physical separation between them ; thus , in some parts of the world , Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents . In geology , Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock . However , the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on the paleomagnet data . Reply of the ___MASK1___ to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire , also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto ( Russian :      ), is a painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin . The 2 . 03 m ( 6 foot 7 inch ) by 3 . 58 m ( 11 foot 9 inch ) canvas was started in 1880 and finished in 1891 . Repin recorded the years of work along the lower edge of the canvas . ___MASK31___ III bought the painting for 35 , 000 rubles , at the time the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting . Since then , the canvas has been exhibited in the State Russian Museum in ___MASK90___ . The N . A . Rimsky - Korsakov ___MASK90___ State Conservatory is a music school in ___MASK90___ . In 2004 , the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1 , 400 students . ___MASK84___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK84___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European ___MASK84___ . ___MASK84___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include ___MASK90___ , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . ___MASK31___ Konstantinovich Glazunov ( 10 August 1865  21 March 1936 ) was a Russian composer , music teacher , and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period . He served as director of the ___MASK90___ Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory , then the Leningrad Conservatory , following the Bolshevik Revolution . He continued heading the Conservatory until 1930 , though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return . The best - known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich . ___MASK13___ is the third - most populous city in ___MASK84___ after Moscow and St . Petersburg . It is the most populous city in Asian ___MASK84___ , with a population of 1 , 473 , 754 as of the 2010 Census . It is the administrative center of ___MASK13___ Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District . The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley , near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the ___MASK13___ Hydro Power Plant , and occupies an area of . ___MASK33___ ( or ) is the capital and ___MASK61___ populous city of ___MASK84___ , with 12 . 2 million residents within the city limits and 16 . 8 million within the urban area . ___MASK33___ has the status of a Russian federal city . ___MASK94___ Vasilievich Stasov ( sometimes transliterated as Stassov 14 January 1824 , ___MASK90___  23 October 1906 , ___MASK90___ ), son of Russian architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov ( 1769  1848 ), was probably the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime . He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence in 1843 , was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1859 , and was made honorary fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1900 , together with his friend Leo Tolstoy .