🏛 Moscow International House of Music

Космодамианская наб., 52, стр. 8

A modern concert complex by the Moskva River with a Great Hall and an organ.

Construction began on 7 September 2000 on the initiative of Yuri Luzhkov and Vladimir Spivakov.
The treble clef on the dome by Zurab Tsereteli, 9.5 m tall and weighing over 6 tonnes, rotates like a weather vane; it was lifted into place by helicopter.
The 1,699-seat Svetlanov Hall is named after the conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov.
The Svetlanov Hall organ was built by the German firms Klais and Glatter-Götz; by number of stops it is the largest in Moscow.
In 2003 the building received the top award of the Zodchestvo festival, the Crystal Daedalus.
Along the Stairway of Stars stand open music scores with autographs by Domingo, Carreras, Hvorostovsky and others.

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