Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street is among the few streets in Moscow that has barely changed over the past 100 years. The area has earned the nickname of the music center of the city, due mainly to the fact that the Moscow conservatory is housed in a remarkably beautiful building here. The Moscow state conservatory was founded by Nikolai Rubinshtein, a talented pianist, conductor and composer, in 1866. Until his last days in 1881, he remained the conservatory’s director, piano class professor and pupil’s orchestra conductor. Among other contributors to the establishment and development of the Moscow conservatory were well-known Russian musicians Sergei Taneyev (1885 — 1889), Vasily Safonov (1889 — 1905), and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1906 — 1922), with the latter having taken over after Nikolai Rubinshtein. The building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya was first occupied by the conservatory in the early 1870s. It was built back in the 1790s as a manor by the great architect Vasily Bazhenov for the well-known Ekaterina Dashkova, a princess born as countess Vorontsova, the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences who owned this land from 1766. The construction of the present building was completed in 1893 — 1901. Absolutely free of charge, architect Vasily Zagorsky created a unique classic-style architectural complex with three education facilities, as well as three concert halls that boast unique acoustics thanks to the hollow tiles inserted in the vault. A façade wall of the building’s central part with two-story high semi-rotunda and the wall of the right wing (by sculptor Alexander Aladyin) are the only two parts which bear a resemblance to the old Bazhenov-style building. In 1940, when the Moscow state conservatory was celebrating its 100th anniversary, it was endowed with the name of the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In 1954, a Pyotr Tchaikovsky monument created by the renowned sculptor Vera Mukhina was set up in front of the building. The conservatory boasts the best in terms of architecture and acoustics in philharmonic halls in Moscow, i. e. the Bolshoi, Maly Hall and Rakhmaninov Hall, along with the Myaskovsky Concert Hall and Rubinshtein Museum. According to a decree of the President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic dated December 18, 1991, the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory is among the most valuable national heritage assets. The Moscow conservatory is among the world’s leading centers of concert activity, and one of the main organizers of music and musician contests in Moscow, with the International Tchaikovsky Competition as just one of them. Halls of the Moscow Conservatory 13/6 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street Okhotny Ryad metro station moscow.ru/en/guide/entertainment/attractions/buildings_and_structures/index.php?id4=142
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 07:12:02 +0000
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