Pianist Yulia Kazantseva will be a special guest of the additional programme for the museum-theatrical project “To Be Eternally Preserved”. On 30 September 2018 at 18:00, exhibition visitors will hear the musical program “Music of the Manors” with music by Dmitry Bortniansky, Lev Gurilyov, Osip Kozlovsky, Aleksey Zhilin, and Mikhail Glinka. Entry is free, but registration is required.

Mikhail Glinka was one of the first great Russian composers. However, great music was also written before Glinka’s time. Dmitry Bortniansky, Osip Kozlovsky, Lev Gurilyov, and Aleksey Zhilin’s names do not appear often on posters nowadays. How did their lives develop, what kind of music did they write, and how did composers of 18th century Russia live? How did music sound in manors, when did it become fashionable to play music at home? These questions will be discussed at this concert and, of course, music will be performed–the very music that was listened to on Imperial Russian estates.