Об учебно-педагогической работе Московской консерватории в дореволюционный период

Abstract

The educational activities of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (IRMS) were of indelible significance in the formation of the Russian musical enlightening and educational system. The Moscow Conservatory became one of the greatest achievements of the IRMS, since it concentrated in its image — its spiritual and artistic orientations, administrative and tutorial structure, and pedagogical — the characteristic particularities the development of which subsequently consolidated and elevated its significance in music history. The article examines the questions of the establishment of the tutorial-pedagogical work of the Moscow Conservatory during the prerevolutionary period: the formation of the managerial apparatus, its evolution (depending on the quantity of students), a perception is provided about the makeup of the pedagogical faculty. The peculiarities of the pre-revolutionary organization of tutorial courses of the Conservatory are briefly illuminated as being accessible (for involvement in it at any stage) and as being compound, comprised of several interconnected steps: from the elementary to the artisanal-professional and to the advanced level. The latter also provided the possibilities to acquire indispensable knowledge in the humanitarian sphere for those to wished it. On the example of the Moscow Conservatory the achievements of the educational achievements of the IRMS are demonstrated, which during the Soviet period led to the threelevel system of national musical education in Russia (school — college — higher educational institution), which exists up to the present day.