| Year |
Age |
Event |
| 1875 |
0 |
Reinhold Moritsovich Glière born in Kiev on 11 January. Son of a woodwind instrument maker of Belgian (or some of his living relatives say German) extraction. Learned violin from an early age |
| 1891 |
16 |
Entered Kiev Music School to study violin and composition |
| 1894 |
19 |
Became pupil at Moscow Conservatory, studying composition under Taneyev, Ippolitov-Ivanov and Arensky |
| 1900 |
25 |
Graduated from Moscow Conservatory. Pupils over the following years included Prokofiev, Miaskovsky and Khachaturian |
| 1905 |
30 |
Lived in Berlin until 1907, where he studied conducting with Oskar Fried |
| 1906 |
31 |
Symphony no 1 first performed in England at Queens Hall promenade concert |
| 1908 |
33 |
Conducting debut in Russia |
| 1908 |
33 |
Première of Symphony no 2 |
| 1908 |
33 |
Première of Symphonic Poem The Sirens |
| 1911 |
62 |
Completed Symphony no 3 |
| 1913 |
38 |
Appointed Professor at Kiev Conservatory |
| 1914 |
39 |
Appointed Director at Kiev Conservatory |
| 1920 |
45 |
Appointed Professor of Composition at Moscow Conservatory, a post held until retirement in 1941 |
| 1927 |
52 |
International popularity came with the Ballet The Red Poppy |
| 1937 |
62 |
Awarded the Order of the Red Banner |
| 1938 |
63 |
Chairman of the Management Committee of the Moscow Union of Composers, until 1948 |
| 1938 |
63 |
Named People's Artist of the USSR |
| 1941 |
66 |
Retired |
| 1956 |
81 |
Died in Moscow on 23 June |
