UDC 784: 37
DOI: 10.36871/hon.202301072
Authors
Zhang Menwen,
Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, 125009, Russian Federation, Moscow
Abstract
The article is devoted to the period when Guo Shuzhen (born 1928), an outstanding representative of the Chinese vocal school, studied at the Moscow Conservatory. The author defines the moments contributing to the formation of European vocal training branch in China, and describes the first teachers who emigrated from Russia in 1919 and became the founders of the first vocal schools in Shanghai and Harbin. The versatile activity of Guo Shuzhen, a chamber and opera singer raised by the Moscow Conservatory school, is briefly characterized. The main goal is to consider the stages of the formation of Guo Shuzhen’s creative personality in the context of the emerging pedagogical ties in China and the USSR and their subsequent intensive development. The materials of Guo Shujen’s personal file from the Archive of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory presented new, unknown in China, information on the years of her studies. Especially significant is the conclusion of Professor E. Katulskaya in the pre-graduate period: “Guo Shuzhen has outstanding professional qualities and is a trained singer for successful work in the opera theatre, as well as for concert work”. For the first time the scale of Guo Shuzhen’s opera and concert practice during the years of her study is illuminated: from participation in opera studio performances to patron concerts all over the USSR, as well as participation in opera productions of different years, performing the roles of Tatiana, Cio-Cio-San and others. The article pays special attention to graduates of the Central Beijing Conservatory who passed through the brightly individual school created by Guo Shuzhen and considers the multifaceted activities of Guo Shuzhen in China.
Keywords
Go Shuzhen, E. K. Katulskaya, Moscow Conservatory, archive, personal file of Go Shuzhen, chamber and opera singer, pedagogy
