DOI: 10.36871/hon.202004011
Authors
Chen Xize
Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract
The article discusses the stages of the difficult path Chinese students have gone through to meet all the requirements of the European (Russian) music education system. This work is the first publication in Russia and China of archival materials from the personal files of a group of students who arrived in the 1950s–60s to study at The Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Among the first 28 students from China, the absolute majority were composers and conductors, instrumentalists and vocalists. It was during their studies that they were adapted to the European system of music education. Their initial knowledge was classified by the Moscow Conservatory professorship as corresponding to the 1st or 2nd year of the school. Many materials from the archive indicate great difficulties in understanding the newly enrolled Chinese students in harmony, solfeggio, instrumentation and polyphony courses. At the same time, most of them were awarded diplomas with honors from the Conservatory, and for some graduates the result of training was a candidate's dissertation.
Keywords
Archive of The Moscow State Conservatory, Chinese students and graduate students, personal files, individual plans, Russian music education
