Aleksey Zhilin
Aleksey Dmitriyevich Zhilin (c. 1766, Kursk Province. 1848, Moscow) was a Russian composer and multi instrumentalist. Blind from the age of 6 months old, he was the Kapellmeister and orchestra director at the Institute for Blind Workers in St Petersburg from 1808 to 1818. Thereafter he resided in Kursk and Moscow. His published compositions include six polonaises, six marches, and several quadrilles, waltzes, écossaises, songs, and works for piano. However, not many are preserved and very little has survived to the present. There is also no visual record of what he looked like, as no paintings were ever produced during his lifetime.
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