Ученые записки РАМ имени Гнесиных

Elena Gnesin’s enigma

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Original article
DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2024-3-10-28

Dina K. Kirnarskaya

Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia,
d.kirnarskaya@gnesin-academy.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1059-5776
Abstract: The article is timed to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Elena Gnesina, the founder of several educational institutions (three music schools, three colleges and Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), embodying the system of effective training of musicians. Considering the circumstances of her life and times it’s not easy to imagine how the offspring of a big Jewish family could grow into such an influential personality: her ideas are still alive and lie in the basis of professional music education.

The paper is a short summary of Elena Gnesin’s special talent that had been a combination of musical, pedagogical and organizational gift next to none. The author is giving an answer to obvious enigma of Elena Gnesin’s biography: how could she be at the same time an outstanding pianist, an innovative teacher and impressively great top manager who made impossible things possible. Her educational company under her personal guidance lived through almost a century of historical turbulence in Russia from the last tsar to 1970-s and could remain an authoritative institution near the renowned Moscow Conservatory.

Keywords: Elena Gnesina, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, music education, educational institution, top manager

For citation: Kirnarskaya D. K. Elena Gnesin’s enigma. Scholarly papers of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. 2024;(3):10-28. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2024-3-10-28

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