Lev Gurilyov

Lev Stepanovich Gurilyov (Russian: Лев Степанович Гурылёв; 1770–1844) was a renowned Russian serf musician and composer of church music and liturgical works in the Italian style fashionable at the period. Father of pianist and composer Aleksander Gurilyov, he was a violin player and kapellmeister in the orchestra of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov.[1] He was a pupil of Giuseppe Sarti,[2] he also studied music under the guidance of Irish composer John Field.[2][3]

Not to be confused with Lev Gumilyov.

Musical works

Emancipated after the death of his owner in 1831, Lev Gurilyov composed many piano pieces and variations on Russian folk themes.[2]

  • Sonata (1794)
  • 24 Preludes (1810)
  • Prelude in G Minor
  • Na Bozhestvenney Strazhe (On Divine Watch, a double-choir concerto)

References
  1. Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1982). Great Soviet encyclopedia, Volume 7. New York: Macmillan. p. 488. 60879620
  2. Ritzarev, Marina (2006). Eighteenth-Century Russian Music. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-7546-3466-9.
  3. 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.
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