Talk:Mikhail Glinka

Composer project review
I've reviewed this article for the Composers project review of its B-class articles. This article is B-class; it needs a listing of his works, and an enlarged discussion of his influence, especially on The Five. The detailed review is on the comments page; questions and comments can be left here or on my talk page.  Magic ♪piano 21:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Gay musicians (category)
He was married, was interested in women all his life, and the only thing I can see that could possibly shed any doubt on his heterosexuality is "In Spain, Glinka met Don Pedro Fernandez, who remained his secretary and companion for the last nine years of his life". Companion does not necessarily mean any kind of sexual partner. I'm removing him from "Gay musicians" unless something more substantial can be provided (if it exists). -- JackofOz (talk) 08:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Classical?
He was a composer of the Romantic period, not Classical. He cannot be a founder of the Russian Classical music because Classical period was already over. --146.95.15.37 (talk) 18:49, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

'Fountainhead'
...is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.
 * – 'Fountainhead,' though intelligible, is not a word typically employed in such a context in English – Ayn Rand notwithstanding. Is this an attempt to avoid putative gender bias by not saying "the father of Russian classical music," which would be more usual? If so, it seems artificial and awkward, IMO. Sca (talk) 21:11, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 00:04, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Glinkastrasse
There is a street in Berlin, named Glinkastrasse, nominated for "own" subway station (e.g. to commemorate Glinka, Berlin wanted to rename existing subway station -- and move from a "Mavre Street" Mohrestrasse to "Glinka Street", Glinkastrasse). I am a bit too busy to learn the detals and gather all the e-books via free official sources -- so I only want to remind editors to use free ebooks (Google Books, Gutenberg project etc.) to make their proofs solid.

Uchyotka (talk) 17:51, 16 July 2020 (UTC)


 * The current text reads:
 * In the wake of the George Floyd protests, the Berlin U-Bahn station Mohrenstraße was proposed to be renamed "Glinkastraße", which is adjacent to the station.
 * …which doesn't quite make sense, does it? How can the station be adjacent to itself? – AndyFielding (talk) 09:11, 19 February 2022 (UTC)