History and culture: Sounds of war and music of wartime to be presented at the exhibition in Moscow

May 5, 2015 in the Central Museum of Musical Culture (Moscow) opens the exhibition "70 tunes of Victory", which first offers to hear the music of the war more fully - not only the sounds of battle, but the songs performed at the front, works written in the rear. 

From 1941 to 1945, it was created more than a thousand pieces of music. 70 of the most significant were the basis of the exhibition, it is a kind of "musical route" of the Victory. The museum tells the history of the works and their authors, many of who were at the front and raised the morale of the people in the rear.

For the first time to a broad audience will be presented a record of the famous "Holy War" by A. V. Alexandrov with the first records. Visitors will see the manuscript and the author of works stored in the museum.

Another "premiere" of the exhibition is an album, a musical chronicle of life in Moscow during the war, which led the chief conductor of the orchestra of All-Union Radio Nikolai Semenovich Golovanov. It collects newspaper articles, invitations to premieres, concert programs, notes and reviews that reflected the major milestones of musical life in the capital of 1941-1945. 

The exhibition space feature sound recordings, unique footage video chronicles of the war years - for example, fragments of performances of frontline teams.