Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony In A Major No. - Weiss, Jojatu, Hersch, Feldman

ANDREEV Vasily Vasilievich [3 (15) I 1861, Bezhetsk, now Kalinin region. - 26 XII 1918, Petrograd] - Russian. musician, virtuoso on the balalaika. Organizer and hand. First Orchestra Rus. Nar tools. Fluent in fp. , Violin. I studied Russian. Nar creativity, played various folk instruments (balalaika, harmonica, pity, pipe). A. improved the Nar. balalaika. In the 80s. according to his drawings, violin master V. V. Ivanov made a 5-fret balalaika. With the participation of A. , instrumental master F. S. Pasersky constructed the 5-fret (end of 1885 - early 1886), and then the 12-fret chromatic (1886) balalaika. Later developed (jointly with Pasersky) orc. Varieties of balalaika (treble, piccolo, prima, viola, bass, double bass). In the 80s. 19 century started performing in amateur concerts.