4928 x 3263 px | 41,7 x 27,6 cm | 16,4 x 10,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
4 dicembre 2011
Ubicazione:
Kiev, Ukraine, Eastern Europe
Altre informazioni:
The National House of Organ and Chamber Music of Ukraine is situated in the reconstructed for the Concert Hall building of the St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral since February 1980. It was constructed during 1899-1909 in a Gothic style after the competition project of the architect S.Volovskiy, by Kiev architects V. Gorodetsky and E. Salya. All construction work was carried out exclusively from voluntary donations. In 1909, the Cathedral was consecrated in the name of Saint Nicholas. After the 1917 the Cathedral has been closed. During the World War II the building was vastly ruined. At some point, during Soviet times the Cathedral was even used as a KGB service building. But after its restoration in 1979-1980, the Church was turned into the National House of Organ and Chamber Music of Ukraine. The stained glass windows of the building were manufactured in the Baltics, its stylish furniture was made in Lviv, and the high quality parquet is from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The big concert organ has been manufactured by the Czech company Riger - Kloss specially for the Cathedral Concert Hall. Unique architecture of the building has been organically combined with the unique instrument.
