The Russian Court Chapel Choir
Subtitle: Galuppi to Vorotnikov Bakhmetev to Lyapunov (Music Archive Publications)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9789058232083
Subjects: Music/Songbooks; Music; General; Music / General
First sentence: By the end of the eighteenth century the Court Kapella was firmly established as the most important musical institution in Russia, and as director of the Kapella - the Tsar's personal choir and the only establishment in Russia to offer a specialist musical education - Dmitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky was one of the most influential figures in Russian musical life.