Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR explained

The Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (Государственная премия РСФСР имени М.И. Глинки) was a prize awarded to musicians of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1965–1991.

To be distinguished from the Glinka Award (of 500 rubles) won in 1900 by Scriabin (for his First Symphony), in 1904 by Rachmaninov, and three times by Reinhold Glière.

Both the prize and the award are named in honour of Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.

Partial list of recipients

1965 Valery Gavrilin (composer)
1966 Lev Oborin (pianist)^[1]
1968 Borodin Quartet (string quartet): inc. Dmitri Shebalin (viola)^[2]
1974 Dmitri Shostakovich
1979 Tikhon Khrennikov (composer)^[3]
1979 Vladislav Sokolov (choral conductor)^[4]
1981 Alexander Voroshilo (baritone)^[5]
1981 Viktor Tretiakov (violin)
1987 Shostakovich Quartet inc. Aleksandr Galkovsky (viola),^[6] Alexander Korchagin (cello)^[7]
1991 Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev (ballet dancers)

References

Web site: Оборин Лев Николаевич . Oborin Lev Nikolaevich . Ru . 2010-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090811002159/http://www.mosconsv.ru/teachers/about.phtml?316 . 2009-08-11 . dead .
Web site: Шебалин Дмитрий Виссарионович . Shebalin Dmitry Vissarionovich . Ru . 2010-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090811002135/http://www.mosconsv.ru/teachers/about.phtml?303 . 2009-08-11 . dead .
Web site: Хренников Тихон Николаевич . Khrennikov Tikhon Nikolaevich . Ru . 2010-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100616062733/http://www.mosconsv.ru/teachers/about.phtml?88 . 2010-06-16 . dead .
Web site: Соколов Владислав Геннадиевич . Sokolov Vladislav Gennadievich . Ru . www.mosconsv.ru.
Web site: Ворошило Александр Степанович . Voroshilo Alexander Stepanovich . Ru . www.mosconsv.ru.
Web site: Александр Владимирович . Aleksandr Vladimirovich . Ru . www.mosconsv.ru.
Web site: Alexander Korchagin . 2010-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090614035847/http://www.mosconsv.ru/english/teachers/about.phtml?148 . 2009-06-14 . dead .

External links

Glinka singing competition (конкурс певцов имени М.И. Глинки) - as won by Dmitri Hvorostovsky in 1987