Keywords:
Imperial Moscow University, graduates and students of the Faculty of Law at IMU, Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, N.G. Rubinstein, piano performing and pedagogical school headed by K.N. Igumnov, stage directing school headed by L.V. Baratov
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Zadneprovskaya G.V.
Graduates of Imperial Moscow University: At the Origins of Russian Performing School. // Theory and History of Art.
2024.
N 3/4,
p.44–79
The article outlines the contribution of outstanding graduates of the Imperial Moscow University (IMU), who significantly improved Russian education. Being the intellectual elite, they formed musical and performing arts in Russia due to putting their effort, creativity and organizational skills to these spheres.
The author analyses scientific papers, archival materials and documents concerning the history of IMU of the second half of the 19th century, as well as biography of N.G. Rubinstein, a graduate of the Faculty of Law, IMU, the founder of the Moscow Conservatory and its first director, and biographies of two of his students — pianist K.N. Igumnov and stage director L.V. Baratov, each of whom were at the origins of piano performing and stage directing art in Russia.
The author concludes that N.G. Rubinstein, K.N. Igumnov and L.V. Baratov — graduates of IMU — played a really fundamental role in forming and developing professional music education in Russia, in particular in improving pianistic performing classes and stage directing schools.
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