Reinhold Glière was born on January 11, 1875 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire as Rejngold Moricevic Glier. He was a composer, known for Alisher Navoy (1948), Zemlya zhazhdet (1930) and Druzya vstrechayutsya vnov (1939). He died on June 23, 1956 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.