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]

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

External links

• Free scores by Lev Gurilyov at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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[ru] Гурилёв, Лев Степанович