Definition of Glinka

1. Noun. Russian composer (1804-1857).

Exact synonyms: Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Generic synonyms: Composer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glinka

Glenn's operation
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
Glenn Miller
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn shunt
Glenna
Glenner-Lillie stain
Glenwood
Glenys
Gley
Gley's gland
Gliese
Gliese 581
Glifada
Glinka
Gliridae
Glis
Glis glis
Glisson
Glisson's capsule
Glisson's cirrhosis
Glisson's sphincter
Glittertind
Gliwice
Gln
Global Positioning System
Globicephala
Globicephala melaena
Globigerinidae

Literary usage of Glinka

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas (1891)
"Harmony was repugnant to glinka ; nevertheless he composed, and he learned ... In 1830 his physician recommended a change of climate, and glinka travelled ..."

2. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1898)
"Michel Ivanovitch glinka, who, for half a century back, has been considered as the first musician of Russia, the national composer par excellence ..."

3. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, David Starr Jordan, United States Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, (1898)
"Palata Rookery, glinka, Copper Island. From a sketch by the author, July 16, 1883. Standpoint same as my photograph of 1895 (pi. 51) to show distribution of ..."

4. The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera : with Full Descriptions of by Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1897)
"... XIII MODERN GERMAN AND SLAVONIAN OPERA CORNELIUS—GOETZ—GOLDMARK—HUMPERDINCK—SMETANA —glinka THE history of music furnishes more than one instance of the ..."

5. Modern Russian Songs: For Low Voice by Ernest Newman (1921)
"... VOICE version by Constance Purdy PIANO Presto THE JOURNEY (Composed in (Original Key, D) MICHAIL IVANOVITCH glinka ..."

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