Russian Symphony Concerts

He had become acquainted with Belyayev at the weekly "quartet Fridays" ("Les Vendredis") held at Belayev's home.

Belayev had already taken a keen interest in the musical future of the teenage Alexander Glazunov,[1] who had been one of Rimsky-Korsakov's composition students.

[3] Buoyed by the success of the rehearsal, Belayev decided the following season to give a public concert of works by Glazunov and other composers.

[7] Nonetheless, the programmes of works by Glinka, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and Lyadov, as well as works by "the mighty handful" made a profound impression on Maurice Ravel and Ricardo Viñes, who made a point of obtaining a piano duet arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Antar Symphony.

While Glazunov's conducting skills were not especially strong and he used his rehearsal time poorly, his alcoholism may have contributed to the debacle.

Rimsky-Korsakov finished his revision of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and conducted it at the opening concert.