From the history of the Gnesin Music School. About the masters who taught students to «think and act»

Review article
DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2026-3-10-26

Avgusta V. Malinkovskaya

Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia,
malinkowskaya.avgusta@yandex.ru, https: //orcid.org/0009-0004-5638-8793

Abstract: Article are devoted to the development in the last century at the piano Faculty of the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute of a cycle of academic disciplines realizing the primary goal — the creating of a music and pedagogical univursity of a new formation. The article focuses on individual pedagogical schools of outstanding masters of the older generation: A. D. Alekseev, who taught the History of piano art, Methods of teaching piano playing, M. E. Feigin, who taught the course of Methodology and supervised the pedagogical practice of students. Those who developed these disciplines and for many years improved their concepts, content, structure, and logic of their interaction with the specialty class, other subjects of the pedagogical direction, and the university educational process in general, and published works devoted to the education of musicians-teachers (not just pianists), they entered the history of Russian and world science as classics in the field of music education pedagogy.
The article describes the ideas and principles of the main works of these masters, the purpose and innovation of this article is to summarize from a modern perspective the significance of the contribution of these masters to the legacy of the Gnesin pedagogical School, briefly outline the tasks of the continuous development of those of their scientific and practical ideas, the potential of which has yet to be comprehended and adopted in our time.

Keywords: pedagogical school of the Gnessin State Pedagogical University/Russian Academy of Music; cycle of educational disciplines of pedagogical direction; pedagogical concepts of A. D. Alekseev, M. E. Feigin

For citation: Malinkovskaya A. V. From the history of the Gnesin Music School. About the masters who taught students to «think and act». Scholarly papers of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. 2026;(3):10-26. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2026-3-10-26

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