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An exhibition «Valery Gavrilin: about what is dear»
December 26, 2009 — March 28, 2010
Sheremetev Palace — Museum of Music
Branch of St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
An exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Valery Gavrilin is open in Sheremetev palace from December 26. The outstanding musician of the mid 20th century had defined the essence of his creative work: "Music, my very heart and my life, don’t teach the people to live, teach them to love, to suffer and love again, and love again."
This chamber exhibition was based on material from the composer’s personal archive that was given by his widow, Natalia Gavrilina. Exhibited items help us to understand why Gavrilin’s music touches human soul that deep and fills it with the unmeasured tenderness and piercing sadness.
A certain part of Gavrilin’s working place interior was transferred to the exhibition hall: his piano, portraits of his favorite musicians and congenial literary men, family photos, books, manuscripts, his favorite things — all that items, which surrounded the composer and helped to develop specific creative atmosphere. These things let us to peer into the inner world of their possessor, an amazing polymathic person: the composer, the student of folklore, the musicologist, an expert and sophisticated connoisseur of Russian language.
Visitors will have a chance to see and hear excerpts from films and television broadcasts with music by Gavrilin.
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