Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev was a Russian composer of mainly piano music and the orchestra. He began to compose at the age of 15 and rehearsed it through in the local theatre. He had soon after become the principal concert conductor at the Free School of Music in 1862. After a few years of going through mental issues and tiredness, he rejoined the musical world soon after and also had started musical compositions where he wrote several other pieces including Symphony No. 2 and many other pieces and songs played to the piano and the keys.
He set a bar for the whole on the Russian orchestral music and song during the second half of the 19th century where is was said that his works had created a personality trait by themselves with the nature.
Some of his most famous works would be Tamara. 1 Symphonic Poem 1882 Play., Symphony No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, and Islamey, Oriental Fantasy, Op.