Lev Gurilyov

Not to be confused with Lev Gumilyov.

Lev Stepanovich Gurilyov (Russian: Лев Степанович Гурылёв; 1770–1844) was a Russian serf musician and liturgical music composer, along with pedagogue and composer, who was active in Moscow during the late-18th to early-19th centuries.[1] The father of pianist and composer Aleksander Gurilyov, Lev was a violin player and kapellmeister in the orchestra of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov, the younger brother of Catherine the Great, to which was owned according to the principles of serfdom.[2][3] The majority of his life was spent on the Semenovskoye-Otrada estate[rus], owned by the Orlov family, although several moves occurred. Due to the inherited musical aptitude in his son Aleksander, Count Orlov had the son sent to study under the guidance of Irish composer John Field for music composition,[4][5] and Joseph Iosifovich Genishta[rus] for music theory.[2]

He was most notably the contemporary of other late-baroque and early-classical, serf composers in Russia like Dmitry Bortniansky, Stepan Degtyarev, and Daniil Kashin.[2]

  1. ^ "Deskryptory Biblioteki Narodowej". dbn.bn.org.pl. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
  2. ^ a b c Lebedeva-Emelina A.V.  Serf composer Lev Gurilev and his sacred music. Bulletin of PSTGU. Series V. Questions of history and theory of Christian art – 2014. - No. 4 (16) – P. 85-112.
  3. ^ Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1982). Great Soviet encyclopedia, Volume 7. New York: Macmillan. p. 488. 60879620
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ritzarev was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Smrž, Jiří (2011). Symphonic Stalinism: Claiming Russian Musical Classics for the New Soviet Listener, 1932–1953. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 146. ISBN 978-3-643-10448-9.