Lev Gurilyov
Lev Stepanovich Gurilyov (Russian: Лев Степанович Гурылёв; 1770–1844) was a renowned Russian serf musician and composer of church music and liturgical works in the Italian style fashionable at the period. Father of pianist and composer Aleksander Gurilyov, he was a violin player and kapellmeister in the orchestra of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov.[1] He was a pupil of Giuseppe Sarti,[2] he also studied music under the guidance of Irish composer John Field.[2][3]
Musical works
Emancipated after the death of his owner in 1831, Lev Gurilyov composed many piano pieces and variations on Russian folk themes.[2]
- Sonata (1794)
- 24 Preludes (1810)
- Prelude in G Minor
- Na Bozhestvenney Strazhe (On Divine Watch, a double-choir concerto)
References
- ↑ Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1982). Great Soviet encyclopedia, Volume 7. New York: Macmillan. p. 488. 60879620
- 1 2 3 Ritzarev, Marina (2006). Eighteenth-Century Russian Music. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 289. ISBN 075-463-466-3.
- ↑ Smrž, Jiří (2011). Symphonic Stalinism: Claiming Russian Musical Classics for the New Soviet Listener, 1932-1953. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 146. ISBN 364-310-448-0.
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