Museum of Glinka on Fadeev. Museum of Musical Culture. Glinka

The Glinka Museum of Musical Culture is one of the largest treasures in which monuments of musical art are represented. It has no analogues in the world.

general information

The museum contains not only literary and musical manuscripts, but also many studies, as well as rare books. The collection contains autographs and letters, various documents related to the work of famous cultural figures, both Russian and foreign.

Of special interest are the musical instruments of many peoples of the world. In 2010, the State Collection handed over to the Museum the largest collection of works by masters from different eras. Among them are masterpieces made by A.Stradivari, representatives of Amati and Guarneri families. The Glinka Music Museum is proud of the oldest organs established in its walls, including works by F. Ladegast.

Main job

Permanent exhibits are displayed here. Concerts, dialogues, excursions and evenings of sound recording are organized on preliminary request. Those who wish can attend interactive classes, as well as cognitive children's holidays.

History

Its beginning is the Museum of Musical Culture. Glinka takes from the Moscow Conservatory. It was here, from the first moment of its existence, enthusiasts began to collect on their own initiative rare musical materials - documents and autographs, as well as manuscripts and tools, which became the basis of today's collection.

On March 11, 1912, in the walls of a small hall near the library of the Conservatory was opened the Museum. N.G. Rubinstein. It was dedicated to the memory of this outstanding music figure, who was especially fond of the capital's public. It was Rubinshtein who founded the Conservatory and the Moscow branch of the Russian Muscovite. The documents of the IRMO, rare tools and books, his personal belongings, as well as letters and autographs were concentrated here.

Changes

Throughout its brief history, the Glinka Museum experienced both times of recovery and heavy stages when it, being completely oblivious, was on the verge of closure. Almost three decades he served as the service department at the Moscow Conservatory. It was the function of some educational library, as the employees were mainly engaged in only storage and in a very small degree - the acquisition of new exhibits.

In the late thirties of the last century, on the eve of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory, the nature of the museum's activity has changed dramatically. Rapidly began to increase its collection, noticeably intensified the exhibition area of work, popularized the research side of the funds.

In 1941, the Central Museum of Musculature was created on the basis of the conservative unit by Stalin's decision. And already in 1943 he was given the status of a state institution. From this point on GCMMC not only gained great popularity, but also got its special place.

It was then, in the middle of the fortieth, the name Rubinstein for some reason disappeared from the official name of the museum. And already in 1954, on the anniversary of M.I. Glinka, he was named after the great composer.

Confession

Gradually, year after year, the structure and direction of work began to take shape. The works published by the Glinka Museum were widely disseminated and included in general cultural usage. Thanks to the source studies, this cultural center began to acquire the status of research. However, officially the Glinka Museum received it only in 1974. But in spite of the fact that it happened with some delay, nothing could stop the devoted to their favorite work colleagues from doing scientific work.

Throughout its history, the Glinka Museum in Moscow twice changed its address. After the territory of the Conservatoire, he spent almost two decades in a beautiful old mansion - in the wards belonging to boyars Troekurov. This building was in Georgievsky Lane: it was well known to native Muscovites. But since the beginning of the 1980s the Museum of Musical Culture. Glinka finally acquired his final home: specifically for him was built a building along Fadeeva Street.

Collection of records

Currently, it is called one of the world's largest collections of musical culture. Its collections have about one million items of storage, which cover all the components of musical culture. Here you can see not only the author's manuscripts, but also autographs, and photographs, which depict the most famous cultural figures.

The Glinka Museum has both a huge collection of musical instruments from different eras, as well as audio and video recordings of works of all genres and types, from classical, including modern ones, to folk songs.

Here are the very first Russian records. There are about sixty thousand units of storage. The first issues of the companies "Gramophone" and "Zonophone", "Pate" and "Metropol" are also shown. A lot of publications of the Soviet period, which produced the company "Melody", as well as leading foreign music organizations.

The Glinka Museum at Fadeev is a place where manuscripts of composers' works are kept. Among them are such masters as Glazunov, Rakhmaninov, Shostakovich, Grechaninov and many others. These amazing documents are perfectly preserved. They are available for viewing, so anyone who visits the Glinka Museum can admire them.

It also has its own recording studio, which is equipped with modern equipment. To record their works in the Museum come musicians of different directions.

Divisions

In the All-Russian Museum of Musical Culture. Glinka, except for the main building, located on Fadeeva Street, today includes branches. These departments are located in the center of the capital. Many of its residents are fans of music. This is the memorial estate of Chaliapin, the Museum of Prokofiev, "P. Tchaikovsky and Moscow ", the apartments of A. Goldenweiser and N. Golovanov, as well as the House Museum of S.I. Taneyev, who is still at the stage of creation.

In 1995, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Glinka Museum was included in the State Arch, in which particularly valuable cultural heritage objects were entered.

Educational work

His research staff conducts about twenty subscription cycles of lectures and concerts, educational courses for visitors of different ages and levels of knowledge. There is a separate program for the development of children - a demonstration of instruments with musical inserts, stories about their origins and the history of creation.

Thematic exhibitions can be viewed not only by visiting the Glinka Museum at Fadeev or other metropolitan branches, but also in other cities of the country and abroad, where collections are brought constantly.

The staff prepares and publishes musical and text editions, conducts work for the publication of musical and scientific research.

Glinka Museum organizes not only music concerts and exhibitions. Since 2007, the Moscow Opera Club has been operating here. At first it was opened in the Museum of Cinema, after it moved to the Theater Hall named after AA Bakhrushin, and already from 2007 it firmly established itself in the walls of the Glinka Museum. The club's programs are devoted to a very specific subject: biographies of composers or singers, musical directions or opera schools. Within the framework of his activity, seminars are held, in which foreign performers, musicians and musicologists take part.

Main expositions

The Glinka Museum has a unique collection of instruments, one third of which is exhibited. Five of its halls, decorated in individual color solutions, present to the attention of visitors more than nine hundred traditional and professional exhibits. Here you can find the tools of both peoples of Russia and practically all countries of Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia.

In the first hall visitors can see Russian folk instruments. Here you can admire the unique gusli, supposedly made in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. They were found during archaeological excavations in ancient Novgorod. After the reconstruction of their lost fragments, these unique finds took their place of honor. There are also copies of saples and whistles: their fragments were also found on excavations.

In the window of another hall, in which the instruments of countries neighboring our country are presented, there is the oldest assembly, which is rightfully proud of the Musical Museum named after M.Sh. Glinka. It is a collection of thirty-six musical instruments played by the peoples of Central Asia. It was assembled by August Eichhorn, the Kapellmeister of the Turkestan Military District.

Another amazing exhibit is the Chinese small lab organ "sheng", which was created, in the opinion of the researchers, back in the second millennium before our era. Other instruments - a Vietnamese monochord, decorated with filigree mother-of-pearl inlay, as well as the Irish harp of the nineteenth century - always cause increased interest among visitors. Here you can see the Scottish bagpipes and the Japanese stringed "koto", which girls from aristocratic families, Indian "guilt", as well as African tamas, whose membranes are made of animal skins, were supposed to play.