The same year, Mikhail Glinka rehearsed parts of his new opera A Life for the Tsar at Vielgorsky's home, accompanied by the enserfed orchestra of Prince Yusupov.

In the 1830s and 1840s, as Richard Stites notes, Vielgorsky's salon "played host to the most celebrated musical visitors to mid-century Russia: Liszt, Berlioz, the Schumanns, and Pauline Viardot among others ... Because of the attendance of Gogol, Zhukovsky, Vyazemsky, Lermontov, Odoevsky, Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, and Bryullov, a contemporary dubbed Vielgorsky's home "a lively and original multifaceted academy of the arts.'

'"[1] Vielgorsky presided over his salons with remarkable informality, donning simple garments and entertaining various different classes of guests in expert ease.

Not limiting himself to the knowledge he had acquired, Vielgorsky continued his studies of composition in Paris with Luigi Cherubini, the famous Italian composer and Music Theorist.

He was one of the first in Russia to master large sonata-symphonic forms, writing two symphonies (the first was performed in 1825 in Moscow), a string quartet, and two overtures.

He also created variations for Cello and Orchestra, pieces for piano, romances, vocal ensembles, as well as a number of choral works.

Vielgorsky noted that his opera "Gypsies" was based on a plot related to the events of the Patriotic War of 1812 (libretto by V. Zhukovsky and V. Sollogub).

[citation needed] Vielgorsky managed to attract many musicians to his Luizino estate in the Kursk province, far from the life of the capital.

[12] Vielgorsky highly appreciated Glinka's music and considered his opera Ivan Susanin, later more commonly named A Life for the Tsar, a masterpiece.

He did not seek fame, shied away from the struggle and, despite the fact - or, perhaps, precisely because, - he was an extraordinary person: a philosopher, critic, linguist, physician, theologian, hermeticist, honorary member of all Masonic lodges, the soul of all societies, a family man , epicurean, courtier, dignitary, artist, musician, comrade, judge, he was a living encyclopedia of the deepest knowledge, an example of the most tender feelings and the most playful mind.

Mikhail Vielgorsky knew Maria Sergeyevna Durnovo (Griboyedova), skilled piano performer and sister of famous Russian writer Alexander Griboyedov.

They somehow made it to Moscow, where the unfortunate woman suffered for forty hours and finally gave birth to a daughter.

It is a pity for Michel, especially since he ascribes his misfortune to himself.In 1816, Mikhail Vielgorsky secretly married the elder sister of his first wife Princess Louise Biron von Courland (1791-1853), the maid of honor of the Empress Maria.