State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg

The State Academic Capella of St. Petersburg is one of the main centers of musical art in Russia. Masterpieces of Russian and world classics, outstanding examples of choral music, compositions by modern authors, as well as music of various genres - from symphojaz to folk - sound from the Capella stage.

History

Main article: History of music in Russia

1883: Appointment of Balakirev as the Managing Chapel and Rimsky-Korsakov as his assistant

With the accession to the throne of Alexander III, the leadership of the Court Singing Chapel changed, as Rimsky-Korsakov reports in the Chronicle. Count S. D. Sheremetev took the "representative and honorary" position of director, but "in reality, the case was assigned to the manager of the Chapel and his assistant. Sheremetev elected Balakirev as manager, and the latter... without feeling any theoretical and pedagogical soil, he took me as an assistant, as plunging into theoretical and pedagogical activities at the conservatory. In February 1883, my appointment as assistant manager of the Court Chapel took place. "

Rimsky-Korsakov notes that "the mysterious thread of such an unexpected appointment was in the hands of T. I. Filippov, who was then the state controller, and chief prosecutor Pobedonostsev. Balakirev - Filippov - gr. Sheremetev - the connection of these people was on the basis of religiosity, Orthodoxy and the remnants of Slavophilism. "

Read more about the work of composers at Capella here.

1825: Fyodor Petrovich Lvov becomes director of the chapel after the death of Bortnyansky

Alexey Fedorovich Lvov was born on May 25 (June 5 in a new style) in 1798 in a wealthy family belonging to the highest Russian aristocracy. His father, Fyodor Petrovich Lvov, was a member of the Council of State. A musically educated person, after the death of D. S. Bortnyansky, he took the post of director of the court Singing Chapel. From him, this position later passed to his son.