Work Faculties of Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories and Their Role in Musical Education System

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Ilyas F. Talipov

Abstract

This article is devoted to the consideration of musical rabfaks – work faculties that functioned in the 1920s and 1930s at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories. They played an important role in Russian musical pedagogy, especially in the field of future composers education. Following in many respects their main purpose, work faculties became one of the entry-level educational forms in composition training. In this regard, among the creative biographies of musicians presented in the article, the main emphasis has been made on famous composers – N. Budashkin, M. Grachev,
K. Katsman, B. Mokrousov, G. Nosov, A. Spadavecchia, Z. Khabibulline, F. Yarulline, G. Khirby and others.
The purpose of the given article is to study the activities of musical work faculties. The relevance of the paper consists in adding new data about the musical education history of 1920–1930th Soviet period. For the first time into scientific field the article introduces the information presented in rare reference materials which were published by the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories in the 1930th. They allow to consider in detail the main purpose of musical work faculties, their structure, admission requirements and, on this basis, to determine the peculiarities of these educational institutions.


Keywords: music work faculties, Moscow Сonservatory, Leningrad Сonservatory, musical education, national composers.

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How to Cite
Talipov И. Ф. (2023). Work Faculties of Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories and Their Role in Musical Education System. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 53(4), 148–157. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1484
Section
Музыкальное образование: теория, методика, практика
Author Biography

Ilyas F. Talipov, Kazan State Conservatory named after N.G. Zhiganov, Kazan, Russia

Postgraduate at the Music History Department