Reinhold Glière was first played on NTS on 31 May 2017. Songs played include Prelude Op. 2/3, Cis-Moll.

Reinhold Glière (Kiev, 11 January 1875 – Moscow, 23 June 1956) was a Russian, Ukrainian composer. His name has appeared in different forms, as Рейнгольд Эрнeст Глиэр (Reingol'd Ernest Glier) and later, for standardization purposes, converted into Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр (Reingol'd Moritzevich Glier). He is referred to in most Western reference works as Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, or simply as Reinhold Glière.

Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire. He was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier (1834–1896) from Saxony…