"Stanislav Monyushko's Musical Living Room»
Address: G. P. Smilovichi, Shkolnaya str., 11a
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday
9.00-13.00
14.00-18.00
Phone number for booking excursions: 8017-14-28923, 8017-14-23242
A separate exhibition is dedicated to Stanislav Monyushko. It is located in the urban settlement of Smilovichi. This is the only museum in the world dedicated to the composer.
Stanislav Monyushko is rightfully included in the list of composers who are usually called great. He is the creator of the Belarusian and Polish national opera, a classic of vocal lyrics, the founder of the Belarusian and Polish song art, a wonderful musician and conductor. The composer has written dozens of operas, operettas, vaudevilles, comedies, ballets, more than 600 songs, compositions for orchestra, and sacred music.
The name of this composer has a deep, blood connection with the Belarusian culture. Many of Monyushko's works were created and staged for the first time on Belarusian soil, filled with Belarusian color. Stanislaw Moniuszko's romances and songs actually changed the everyday and concert background of Poland and Belarus, which until then had been focused on Italian, French and German music. Today, Stanislav Monyushko's works are performed on the stages of opera houses and concert halls in 25 countries around the world.
Stanislav Monyushko was born on May 5, 1819 in the folvarka Ubel of the Igumen district, now the territory of the Chervensky district.
The world's only museum of Stanislav Monyushko was created in the village of Ozerny, Chervensky district, in the composer's homeland. The museum was founded on May 5, 1969, when the first exhibits were delivered to the Ozernovskaya eight-year school of the Chervensky district on the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth and a memorial plaque was unveiled on the site of the former Ubel estate, where Stanislav Monyushko was born.
In 2019, the exhibition moved to the urban village of Smilovichi, which is closely related to the Monyushko family: the composer's grandfather Stanislav acquired the Smilovichi estate in 1791, then it passed to his sons Kazimir, and after his death to Alexander. And the last owner of the Smilovichi palace, Leonty Vankovich, was the composer's great-nephew. Stanislav Monyushko was baptized in the Smilovichi Church, the remains of the foundation of which are located five hundred meters from the composer's museum.
In 2017, a music lounge was opened in the museum building, combined into a single complex with a museum exhibition.
The exhibition is located in two museum halls. The first part of it tells visitors about Stanislav's childhood and youth years spent in Ubel; through the drawings of the composer's father-Czeslaw Moniuszko-it will introduce local landscapes, portraits of teachers, close relatives of the future genius.
The second part of the exhibition is dedicated to the talented young man's studies at the Berlin Music Academy, his later work in Vilna and Warsaw. Part of the exhibition tells about the friendship of Stanislav Monyushko and V. Dunin-Martinkevich, the creation of the first Belarusian opera "Syalyanka" ("Idyll"), and also introduces visitors to the opera work of the composer. These are sheet music, recordings of works on numerous records and cassettes, photographs of productions of the operas "Galka" and "The Terrible Yard" in Belarus, stage costumes of the Warsaw Opera House.
Visitors will also get acquainted with the history of the creation of the museum itself, which has existed for 50 years. In addition, the exhibition has a section "The name of Stanislav Monyushko on the world map" and "Works of Stanislav Monyushko on the opera stage". After visiting the exhibition, everyone will be able to listen to the musical works of the great composer in the cozy music room.