Gliere - The Bronze Horseman Suite Waltz - Classical Loop - 9.7MB (.wav) - 0:57 - Reinhold Moritzevich Glière wrote his ballet The Bronze Horseman Tempo di valse in 1948. The Bronze Horseman is the famous statue of Peter the Great in the centre of St Petersburg which gained it's title due to the great influence of the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, the greatest russian poet.