Аннотация:The name of Johann Gottfried Wilhelm Palschau, widely known in St Petersburg at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries as a composer, keyboard virtuoso, teacher and musical entrepreneur, is now familiar only to a narrow circle of professionals. Despite the fact that his music has been revived2 in recent years, there are still blank spots in Palschau’s biography. Our task is to fill in some gaps in the life of Palschau as well as to illuminate in more detail his concert life and work as a composer.