Lev Gurilyov
# Lev Gurilyov

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. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Sarti, he also studied music under the guidance of Irish composer John Field.

## Musical works

Emancipated after the death of his owner in 1831, Lev Gurilyov composed many piano pieces and variations on Russian folk themes.

* Sonata (1794)
* 24 Preludes (1810)
* Prelude in G Minor
* Na Bozhestvenney Strazhe (On Divine Watch, a double-choir concerto)
