From 1901, the location of the contemporary building was occupied by a theatre of the French entrepreneur Charles Omon, later by a light genre theatre, and after the 1917 Russian Revolution by the Theatre of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
In the 1920s, the building was handed over to the Meyerhold Theatre. A new building was conceived by Vsevolod Meyerhold, a reformist director, as Moscow's largest and most modern theatre. In 1938, the construction works were mostly completed. However, in 1939 Meyerhold was arrested and later executed. The unfinished building was handed over to Moscow Philharmonic Society. In 1938, the Mayakovskaya metro station was opened in the corner part of the building; in 1940, interior finishing works on a new concert hall were completed, having preserved a lot of the original design (the architect Cherin). The distinctive ellipsoidal shape of the hall ensures perfect visibility and audibility at any point.
An organ made by the German company Walker was brought from the Cathedral of Ss. Paul and Peter and placed upstage. In 1959, an electric organ made by the Czechoslovak company Rieger-Kloss was installed; the organ was renovated twice (in 1970 and 1977).
The opening of the new concert hall, which was named Tchaikovsky Concert Hall after Pyotr Tchaikovsky (the Hall, for short), was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the composer.
On 12th October 1940, the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR (led by Aleksandr Gauk and K. Ivanov) performed such works by Tchaikovsky as the Symphony No. 6, Francesca da Rimini, the first part of the Piano Concerto No. 1, operatic arias and art songs. The concert featured such lead performers as Lev Oborin, Panteleymon Nortsov, Yelena Kruglikova, Vera Davydova, and Mark Reisen.
For the 60 years of its existence, the Hall has hosted large music events, all-USSR and all-Russian reviews of academic and traditional musical ensembles and of symphony orchestras, "weeks" and "days" of culture and art of peoples of the USSR and of other countries.
Since 1962, the Hall has been one of the main venues of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. The Hall has hosted all-USSR competitions of ballet masters and dancers, international chess tournaments; it has even served as a film set.
Currently, the Hall is hosting performances by leading singers and musicians, symphony orchestras as well as by chorus, choreography, traditional-music and popular-music ensembles. Operas and musical dramas are being staged. The Hall is hosting such festivals and competitions as Russian Winter, Moscow Stars, Moscow Autumn, Talents of Russia; it is also hosting ballet evenings, performances by dance ensembles, the Pushkin Celebrations, the Poetry Days, etc.
Moscow Philharmonic Society organises around 300 concerts a year in the Hall. The Hall seats 1,505 people.
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