РАХМАНИНОВ В БЕСЕДЕ С ХЭРРИЕТ БРОУЭР

Abstract

The article presents for the first time a full Russian translation of Rachmaninoff’s conversation with H. Brower, published in 1926 in New York. The text of the interview is equipped with detailed scientific-historical and methodological comments, in which various problems raised in the conversation are considered. Among them are the biographical details of the composer’s creative life, his performing style and human character, his manner of behavior on stage and in everyday life, the practice of everyday home exercises, issues of technical skill development, his attitude to modern music and its individual representatives, the peculiarities of American music students, pros and cons of the American music education system, a comparison of the music education system of Russia in the late XIXth – early decades of the XXth century with the teaching practice adopted in the USA in the 1920s, the priorities for the development of American musical culture and its possible prospects, attention to primary education as a necessary foundation for the rapid creative growth of a young musician, the levels of work of teachers in the United States, etc.