Russia
Until the 19th century, Russian art music had been dominated by foreign musicians. Peter the Great (1689–1725) had begun this trend by importing foreign musicians to modernize his kingdom. As a result, very few Russian compositions in the western European art music tradition exist before Glinka.
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