- Music of Irkutsk
The city of
Irkutsk is the administrative center ofIrkutsk Oblast , both of which produced several famous popular musicians and have a number of styles of folk music. Musicians from Irkutsk include the rock bands "Bely Ostrog ", "Printsip Neopredelyonnosti ", and "Chyorno-Belye Snimki " [http://www.icc.ru/fed/culture.html] . The city of Irkutsk has long been a center for musical development inSiberia .Music institutions
The
Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in the 1850s. The first major school of musical education was founded in 1899, followed a few years later by the opening of the Irkutsk branch of theImperial Russian Musical Society . Other music institutions include theIrkutsk Chamber Orchestra [http://www.manus.baikal.ru/eng/es20.htm] .References
* [http://www.icc.ru/fed/culture.html]
* [http://www.manus.baikal.ru/eng/es20.htm]
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