Did the composer Charles Gounod or Mikhail Glinka live past the year 1875?
Charles-François Gounod
Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (] ; 17 June 181817 or 18 October 1893) was a French composer, best known for his "Ave Maria," based on a work by Bach, as well as his opera "Faust".
 Another opera by Gounod occasionally still performed is "Roméo et Juliette".
 Although he is known for his Grand Operas, the soprano aria "Que ferons-nous avec le ragoût de citrouille?"
 from his first opera "Livre de recettes d'un enfant" (Op. 24) is still performed in concert as an encore, similarly to his "Jewel Song" from Faust.
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка ; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1857 ) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.
 Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music.
Symphony in C (Bizet)
The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet.
 According to "Grove's Dictionary", the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for a 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration."
 Bizet started work on the symphony in C major on 29 October 1855, four days after turning 17, and finished it roughly a month later.
 It was written while he was studying at the Paris Conservatoire under the composer Charles Gounod, and was evidently a student assignment.
 Bizet showed no apparent interest in having it performed or published, and the piece was never played in his lifetime.
 He used certain material from the symphony in later works, however.
 There is no mention of the work in Bizet's letters, and it was unknown to his earlier biographers.
 His widow, Geneviève Halévy (1849–1926), gave the manuscript to Reynaldo Hahn, who left it along with other papers to the archives of the conservatory library, where it was found in 1933 by Jean Chantavoine.
 Soon thereafter, Bizet's first British biographer Douglas Charles Parker (1885–1970) showed the manuscript to the conductor Felix Weingartner, who led the first performance in Basel, Switzerland, on 26 February 1935. Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
The Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin text "Ave Maria", originally published in 1853 as Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach.
 The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over an only very slightly changed version of the Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of J.S. Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier", written 137 years earlier. Viktor Selyavin
Viktor Alekseyevich Selyavin Russian: Виктор Алексеевич Селявин (1875–1945) was a leading tenor of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.
 He is often referred to as Odessa's Sobinov, a reference to Leonid Sobinov, one of the best known Russian tenors of the first half of the twentieth century.
 His repertoire included the tenor roles of most major operas, but he is best known for his interpretation of Lensky in "Eugene Onegin".
 He also performed in chamber music, being especially fond of Mikhail Glinka's and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's romances. Nestor Kukolnik
Nestor Vasilievich Kukolnik (Russian: Нестор Васильевич Кукольник ) (1809–1868) was a Russian playwright and prose writer of Carpatho-Rusyn origin.
 Immensely popular during the early part of his career, his works were subsequently dismissed as sententious and sentimental.
 Today, he is best remembered for having contributed to the libretto of the first Russian opera, "A Life for the Tsar" by Mikhail Glinka.
 Glinka also set many of his lyrics to music. Tavistock House
Tavistock House was the London home of the noted British author Charles Dickens and his family from 1851 to 1860.
 At Tavistock House Dickens wrote "Bleak House", "Hard Times", "Little Dorrit" and "A Tale of Two Cities".
 He also put on amateur theatricals there which are described in John Forster's "Life of Charles Dickens".
 Later, it was the home of William and Georgina Weldon, whose lodger was the French composer Charles Gounod, who composed part of his opera "Polyeucte" at the house. List of compositions by Charles Gounod
This is a list of musical compositions by the 19th-century French composer Charles Gounod (1818–93), sorted by musical category and date. The Great Glinka
The Great Glinka (Russian: Глинка , "Glinka " ) is a 1946 Soviet biopic film directed by Lev Arnshtam.
 The film is about Mikhail Glinka, a Russian composer of the 19th century.
 The film was awarded the Stalin Prize of II degree (1947) and it was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Kamarinskaya
Kamarinskaya (Russian: камаринская ) is a Russian traditional folk dance, which is mostly known today as the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka's composition of the same name.
 Glinka's "Kamarinskaya", written in 1848, was the first orchestral work based entirely on Russian folk song and to use the compositional principles of that genre to dictate the form of the music.
 It became a touchstone for the following generation of Russian composers ranging from the Western-oriented Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to the group of nationalists known collectively as The Five and was also lauded abroad, most notably by French composer Hector Berlioz.