Choir College named after M.I. Glinka

The ancestors of the Choral School were young singers in the composition founded in the XV century. The choir of sovereign song clerks in Moscow , and in 1703 transferred to St. Petersburg and subsequently renamed the Court Singing Chapel. Initially, young singers were only involved in singing, but since the beginning of the 19th century, attempts have been repeatedly made to establish regular training for them.

In the XIX century. at the Capella , regency (conducting) and instrumental classes were opened, which in 1946 became the Choral School. Among the leaders and teachers of the Capella until the beginning of the 20th century: D. Bortnyansky , A. Lvov , M. Glinka , G. Lomakin , S. Smirnov , M. Balakirev , N. Rimsky-Korsakov , A. Lyadov , S. Lyapunov , A. Arensky , S. Smolensky .

In 1920 , female voices were introduced into the Capella choir, originally consisting of men and boys, and girls were accepted into the Choral School for several years. In 1944, part of Capella’s pupils evacuated during the Leningrad blockade moved to Moscow, where the Moscow Choir School (now the Popov Academy of Choral Art ) was created on their basis.

In 1954, the Chapel and the Choir School were named after M. I. Glinka . Since 1955, the School and its choir of boys have been an independent organization (since 1986 at the Workshop st. , 4).

• Bogdanov, Palladiy Andreevich ( 1945 - 1955 )
• Kozlov, Fedor Mikhailovich ( 1955 - 1989 )
• Stolpovskikh, Vladimir Vasilievich ( 1989 - 1991 )
• Begletsov, Vladimir Evgenievich ( 1991 - 2007 )
• Sokolov, Dmitry Evgenievich ( 2007 - 2008 ).
• Grachev, Vasily Vasilievich (from 2008 - 2014 ).
• Begletsov, Vladimir Evgenievich (from 2014 to the present)

• Sveshnikov, Alexander Vasilievich (before 1941 )
• Agafonov, Victor Alekseevich (since March 11, 1941 )
• Krupnov, Sergey Dmitrievich (October 28, 1944 - June 10, 1945 )
• Kozyreva, Zoya Dmitrievna (Acting June 10 - September 26, 1945 )
• Khrutsky, Vincent Vikentyevich (September 26, 1945 - April 16, 1946 )
• Borovetsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich ( 1946 - 1950 )
• Lebedev, D.N. ( 1950 - 1953 )
• Saveiko, Robert Ignatievich ( 1953 - 1965 )
• Kozlov, Fedor Mikhailovich ( 1965 - 1967 , 1981 - 1982 )
• Baranov, Vladimir Konstantinovich ( 1967 - 1981 )
• Sukhotsky, Alexander Alexandrovich ( 1982 - 1988 )
• Dzevanovsky, Sergey Yuryevich ( 1988 - 2012 )
• Khaprov, Victor Alexandrovich ( 2012 - 2014 )
• Begletsov, Vladimir Evgenievich (from 2014 to the present)

• 1949 - Happy sailing! ( Solovyov-Sedov song to the verses of Nikolai Gleizarov " March of the Nakhimovites ")
• 1959 - The sun shines for everyone ( Basner song)
• 1967 - Shield and sword ( Basner’s song on Matusovsky ’s poems “ Where the Homeland Begins ”)
• 1972 - Singing teacher
• 1978 - Leningrad Nightingales (documentary about the Choral School)
• 1983 - Bus driver ( Basner’s song on Matusovsky ’s poems “ We Are Children of Military Time ”, which was not included in the film)
• 1987 - Vsku is regrettable ... (On the 150th anniversary of the death of A.S. Pushkin )
• 1989 - My voice (Film about D. S. Bortnyansky )
• 1989 - The Year of My Spring (Film about A. S. Pushkin )
• 1990 - Whiskers
• 2007 - Execution cannot be pardoned
• 2016 - Petersburg nightingales (a documentary about the Choral School)

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