Webcam Saratov. Conservatory
The building of Saratov State Conservatory was built in 1902 by the St. Petersburg architect A. Yang for a music school. In 1912, under the guidance of architect S. A. Kallistratov, the building was reconstructed and supplemented with elements of Southern German Gothic. And in October of the same year the opening of the first in the province and the third in Russia conservatory, named after the heir to the throne - the Saratov (Imperial Russian Musical Society) Alexeyev Conservatory - took place.
On October 26, 1917 the Soviet power was proclaimed at the meeting of the Saratov Council, which was held at the Conservatory. In 1935 the Conservatory was renamed after the great singer Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov.
In autumn 1941, after the evacuation of the Moscow Conservatory to Saratov, the two conservatories were temporarily merged, receiving the new name of P. I. Tchaikovsky and surviving in this form until 1943, contributing greatly to the musical education of the inhabitants of the city.
In the autumn of 1985, the organ made by the German firm Sauer was played in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. Rich interiors and beautiful acoustics reign in the Small Hall, designed for chamber music.
Many talented musicians of world fame performed in the walls of the Saratov Conservatory, such as: S.Richter, M.Rostropovich, V.Sofronitsky, golden voices of Russia: L.Sobinov and F.Chaliapin, came with concerts: S. Prokofiev, S. Rachmaninov, A. Arensky, A. Glazunov.
Neo-Gothic building of the Saratov Conservatory, decorated with singing chimeras, rosette windows with images of owls and bunches of grapes, is nowadays estimated as a monument of history and artistic culture of the city.
