Sumerian lyre at the A.S. Pushkin Automatic translate

Music is one of the oldest manifestations of a person’s creative spirit, along with cave paintings, an archaeologist often found ancient musical instruments during excavations. They were not particularly difficult, but they served a person as one of the ways to communicate with otherworldly forces, calling on the gods to help people in their difficult lives.

The Pushkin Museum organized an amazing exhibition dedicated to music. The exposition was placed in the building of the Museyon Center, where children learn to peer and listen to the world, learning it from an aesthetic point of view. The most vivid impression is from the ancient Sumerian gold lyre, brought to Moscow from the British Museum. But other exhibits, prototypes of modern musical instruments, excite a part of the soul that remembers the first awkward attempts of a person to tame her Majesty Music.

Visitors will be able to stroll through the halls where sensual sculptures of such masters as Igor Kozlov, Mikhail Dronov, Alexander Tsigal, Georgy Frangulyan, Natalya Elkonina are exhibited. The plasticity of architectural forms imitates and, at the same time, extols musicians of all eras. From Orpheus and King David to the medieval organ grinder, who traveled through the cities in the hope of finding his listener. Also presented are compositions that are an attempt to answer the question: “What is music? What does it give to a person? ”

A musical phrase, imprisoned in sculpture and made with its help even intelligible for people who are hearingless, awakens in the soul as many feelings as a live performance of a genius musical work! You can visit the exhibition until the end of August.

Eve Istr