Особенности становления и развития образовательной деятельности Московской консерватории со времени основания и до рубежа XIX и ХХ столетий

Abstract

The article presents the results of studies of some aspects of the process of formation of educational activities of a non-state educational institution created by the Moscow Department of the Russian Musical Society – the Moscow Conservatory (1866). The organization of its educational process was based on the Charter of the Russian musical society of 1859 and the Charter of its first educational institution – the Music school (Conservatoire), opened in St. Petersburg in 1862. However, in the presence of a common concept of education for both conservatories, there were differences in its implementation, in particular, regarding the formation of the curriculum. In the Moscow Conservatory, the formation of the course was more slow and gradual than in St. Petersburg, in addition, the Moscow Conservatory originally had a subject that was not taught in the capital institution. This is the “History of Church singing” – the only discipline that covered the history of Russian sacred music from a scientific point of view. In connection with this course, the article deals with the topic of interaction between the Moscow Conservatory and the Synodal School of Church singing. The issue of the implementation of the curriculum is also highlighted and the peculiarities of its passage, which consisted in the assumption of a free order in the study and passing of exams in musical and non-musical disciplines, are revealed. It was revealed that such a practice was an effective way to solve the problem of training professional musicians from students of different ages who had different abilities for music. The article demonstrates the first experience of addressing this issue in the aspect of the formation of the educational work of the Moscow Conservatory of the Russian Musical Society.