The Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War has opened an exhibition about the music of the war years

"Symphony of Courage and Victory" in five parts under the vaults of the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk.

This exhibition-premier by eye and ear. And also touching, literally. Visitors can interact with objects: play on the piano the favorite melody of grandfather, which the whole country knows, give their voice to the songs-symbols of our common memory.

85 years ago, the ancestors equated art with bayonets. And the muses – under bullets, risking their lives – led into battle, raising the spirits of Soviet soldiers and people. The project brought together a number of leading cultural institutions. Their biography is also "annals of hardship": forties, fatal.

We say symphony, we mean Shostakovich, we say Shostakovich, we mean Seven, Leningrad. C major - sirens, metronome and silence of the besieged city. 85 years later. Echoes in the vaults of the Belarusian museum and cantata "Leningrady" Bogotyrev 1942. “Participation” of the exhibition – notes of the united front.

Nelly Matsaberidze, Vice-Rector of the Belarusian State Academy of Music: Amazing music by Vladimir Vladimirovich Olovnikov, one of the rectors of the Belarusian State Conservatory. A very interesting fate of this man, who was the first graduate of the Belarusian State Conservatory in 1941. The final exam began on June 22. It was already announced that the Great Patriotic War had begun, but until all the graduates completed their exam, the exam continued.

“The Symphony of Courage and Victory” includes concerts of students of the Academy of Music in relic decorations from the battlefields, lectures from teachers. Shostakovich is a composer with Belarusian roots. And Minsk is the brother of Leningrad, a hero city. We have the same tune.