The creative biography of the outstanding Austrian composer Joseph Haydn stretched for almost half a century and covered absolutely all the stages of the development of the Vienna classical school of music - from the beginning of its formation in the 1760s. and to the heyday of Beethoven's work at the beginning of the 19th century. Austrian composer ...

The history of conducting art knows a lot of famous names of people, who shared with the audience a unique authorial reading of classical compositions. Each of them made a tremendous contribution to the development of world musical art, and some became famous during their lifetime. Introducing ...

Classics are things that have been tested by time, and one of such things is ballet - a musical and theatrical genre. The founder of the ballet was the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. He has only 3 ballets, which are known to every educated person - this is Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty ...

In the XX century, literature reached a qualitatively new level, giving the world more than a dozen masterpieces. We decided to recall the names of those who made the greatest contribution to its development, collecting a list of 10 famous American writers of the 20th century. 10. Ken Kesey Ken Kesey - one of the main writers of the era ...

When it comes to such a direction in painting as abstractionism, then the famous painting by Malevich “Black Square” immediately comes to mind. Perhaps there is an explanation for this. This painting is one of the most famous, and despite the fact that it is already over 100 years old, it still excites the minds of art critics....

Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky is known not only as the brightest representative of poets of the sixties, but also as a translator and author of lyrics for songs. The first adult publications by the poet appeared in 1950. Also during this period, he met with such famous authors as Voznesensky, Yevtushenko ...

Russian poets - Korney Chukovsky and Agniya Barto wrote children's poems, which are still popular today. Korney Chukovsky - a publicist, Soviet poet, critic, translator, for a long time was an invaluable writer of the Silver Age, but a genius wrote not only poems for children, he ...

Ballet is not just art, but real magic. Such dances are inimitably beautiful. Russian ballet is a reference, the most authoritative in the world. The dancers amaze with the plasticity, ease and ease with which they perform complex dance movements. Recall 10 ...

The world cultural heritage has preserved unique works in prose and poetry of the most talented writers of past eras. And we can note that among these personalities French surnames come across every now and then. Interestingly, the “boom” happened in recent centuries in France, which gave rise to so many talented ...

These ringtones sound from almost every mobile phone. They constantly create a mood in advertising stories. In movies, musical passages are independent elements. But if you ask: "what was it?" - not everyone can immediately recall at least the name of a musical ...

Anna Andreeva Akhmatova was one of the most significant figures of Russian literature of the XX century. She was recognized as a classic of Russian poetry back in the 1920s, she was loved and read, but because of the persecution arranged during the Soviet era, many of her best works were not published in her homeland. Now about this poetess ...

A portrait is an image of a group of persons or one person with absolute accuracy. Usually this is a drawing made in a certain style. A portrait painter reproduces the image from memory or draws a person from nature. Through their paintings, portrait painters convey not only the appearance of people, but also their unique ...

A violin in its purest form is not music for everyone. This tool acquired its current form in the 16th century, quickly becoming popular. In recent years, this popularity has been lost, but the sound of the violin has learned to organically weave into the most unsuitable at first glance genres. Nevertheless talented violinists ...

The works of Alexander Alexandrovich Blok are familiar to many from the course of school literature. The poet was a classic of Russian literature of the 20th century, the brightest representative of symbolism (a direction in art, characterized by a desire for innovation, the use of symbolism, hints, mystery ...

World classical music cannot be imagined without the works of composers from Russia. This country with its culture and talents has always been one of the main "engines" of art and development. Composers from Russia combined folk music with foreign art. They managed to combine ...

It is not in vain that St. Petersburg is called the "cultural capital" of Russia: here are the largest and most famous museums in our country. To visit St. Petersburg and not visit at least one is a huge omission. If you don’t have time to go around everything, then here’s a list of ten of the most famous museums in St. Petersburg, ...

Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko gained fame not only as a Russian poet, but also as a prose writer, screenwriter, reader-speaker, publicist and actor. He studied poorly at school, and then he was expelled from the institute, but this did not prevent him from becoming one of the most famous poets of the 1950-1980s, successfully ...

Fans of painting claim that you can endlessly look not only at fire, water and working people, but also at the works of great artists. Their paintings are sold for hundreds of millions, although from a cultural point of view they are priceless. The names of these painters are known even by those who did not come close ...

The most famous works are, as a rule, those that are considered the best, they are included in the school curriculum and recommended for reading to every layman. In the article we will provide a list of the works of such a great Russian poet as Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov. Few people know that he was also ...

Despite the relatively young age (the first musical was staged in the second half of the 19th century), this genre had a huge impact on popular culture throughout the world. The name itself stands for "musical comedy", but in reality the performance can be a drama or a tragedy. Key ...