Les Barbares Galantes – Masterpieces by German composers in Moscow 1770-1800

By the end of the 18th century, the musical landscape in both Russian capitals (the new one, St. Petersburg, and the old, patriarchal one, Moscow) was very lively. House music and maintaining a small, private house band was almost obligatory for the aristocracy and the bourgeois upper class almost obligatory. In most orchestras there were a few, often famous musicians and bandmasters from Europe were employed in most orchestras. Moreover, in the capitals Orchestras in the capitals in addition to the theatres

Thus some musicians and composers were recruited, three of whom can be heard on this CD on this CD. George, Kerzelli and Facius were also instrumental in spreading Haydn’s music in Russia Russia. They themselves were almost forgotten after their deaths, in the Soviet era their work was reviled as “workmanlike”.