MUSIC EDUCATION DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Abstract

The article examines the state of the Russian system of professional music education during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Despite the war conditions, musical life was not interrupted in the two largest cultural centers of the country-Moscow and Leningrad. In the besieged Leningrad, music schools continued to work, and in March 1942, work began on organizing concert performances by the Leningrad Radio Committee Orchestra. In Moscow, from the first days of the war, the formation of concert brigades for serving the army began. He continued to train military kapellmeisters at the Military Faculty of the Conservatory. In addition, evacuated to inland employees of leading conservatories and creative teams have had a significant impact on the development of music education and enhancing the musical life of the province, which led to the later discovery of a number of musical universities, colleges and schools in different regions of the country.