International Dialogue as One of the Factors in Making the Chinese Piano Performing School

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Elena V. Tveritina

Abstract

This article is the result of studying foreign influences on Chinese pianism. The relatively young Asian school is regarded as a heterogeneous phenomenon, whose characteristic features are determined by a combination of two interrelated components: active involvement in the national cultural space and the orientation of artistic aspirations to European piano art. Based on the periodization associated with forming the mechanisms of pedagogy and performing arts of China in the XX–XXI centuries, the adaptation of European, Russian and American piano models to non-European national culture is analyzed. The author comes to the conclusion that the Russian school has become one of the main and stable professional reference points in the China piano-performing environment. At the same time, various European schools of pianism – Italian, Austro-German and French – exerted a “pointˮ effect, manifesting themselves to varying degrees at different stages of forming Chinese pianism and were local in nature. It also turns out to be an indisputable fact of “feedbackˮ, when such features of the Chinese mentality as unique discipline, “filial pietyˮ to the teacher and increased focus of parental attention on the learning process become a model for teachers and students of other nationalities. In turn, the best representatives of the Asian school of pianism have a noticeable influence on the functioning of the world piano culture of our time. Thus, the study of interethnic dialogue in forming the Chinese piano performing school allows us to consider it not only from the obvious side, but also as a dual, mutually enriching process.


Keywords: Chinese piano school, dialogue of traditions, pianism, foreign influence, performing arts.

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How to Cite
Tveritina Е. В. (2022). International Dialogue as One of the Factors in Making the Chinese Piano Performing School. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 49(4), 147–155. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1418
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Conferences, Seminars and Symposia
Author Biography

Elena V. Tveritina, Magnitogorsk State Conservatory (Academy) named after M.I. Glinka, Magnitogorsk, Russia

PhD (Arts), Associate Professor at the Special Piano Department