Music as a Mirror of History Season 1 Episode 16 Balakirev: Symphony No. 1 (1898)
- TV-PG
- November 1, 2016
- 48 min
Delve into the 19th-century movement within Russia to create a distinctively Russian national art. With his Symphony No. 1 as a point of reference, learn how Mily Balakirev personified the quest for an authentic Russian musical aesthetic and see how a group of young composers who gathered around him would change the face of Western concert music.