Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR

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 1965–1990.

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)

References

1. "Оборин Лев Николаевич (in Russian)". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
2. "Шебалин Дмитрий Виссарионович". Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
3. "Хренников Тихон Николаевич (in Russian)". Archived from the original on 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
4. Соколов Владислав Геннадиевич (in Russian)
5. Ворошило Александр Степанович (in Russian)
6. Александр Владимирович (in Russian)
7. "Alexander Korchagin". Archived from the original on 2009-06-14. Retrieved 2010-03-28.

See also

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