Moscow’s Musical Life as Reflected in the Newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti (‘Moscow Gazette’) Year 1787
Journal: Iskusstvo muzyki: teoriâ i istoriâ.
Year: 2024

For the first time, a collection of announcements from the Moskovskie vedomosti (‘Moscow Gazette’) of 1787 is presented. In describing the journey of Empress Catherine II to Taurida, it is supplemented by materials from the Chamber Fourier Ceremonial Journal and testimonies of contemporaries. During her months-long voyage to the south of the empire, Catherine II heard a variety of church singing, she was greeted with fanfares performed by trumpeters and timpanists, cants and cantatas performed b