Exhibitions: The exposition dedicated to the history of the music notation and the largest printed music in Ulyanovsk

August 28, 2014 in the Ulyanovsk museum "Simbirsk printing-offices" took place the opening of the exhibition "Signs of music notation".  

The exhibition is devoted to the history of the emergence of music notation and the largest printed music publishers of late XIX - early XX centuries, which are now part of the musical heritage of the Golden Fund of Russia.

One of the most famous – the printing-office of A. K. Gutheyl was founded in 1859 and includes all printed music of R. R. Stellovsky. In 1861, the printing-office of P. I. Jurgenson, who six years later opened the first printed music in Russia. Printing was done on hand looms metallographically. Sheet music engravers and metallographers were discharged from Germany, as in Russia was a complete lack thereof. By 1878 all engravers of 15 persons were Russians. At the beginning of the XX century the company contained 96 persons, 20 engravers produced annually about 8000 boards; printed lithographically 10 million prints, printing - 4 million.

By the beginning of the XX century the printed music business in Russia has reached a high level of development, not yielding to the art of music typography by foreign music publishers.

The main purpose of these publishers was propaganda of the Russian classical music and then began to promote the spread of Russian musical education.

Printed music represented at the exhibition "Signs of musical notation" is a unique collection of the Museum-Reserve "Homeland of V. I. Lenin". Visitors can see original notes of Mikhail Glinka's opera "A Life for the Tsar", notes romances and songs by P. I. Tchaikovsky, as well as collections of marches and songs, tutorials, piano and guitar of that time.

The exhibition is also enriched with postcards depicting popular in that period composers and performers. The exhibition will run until October 20.