MAKHACHKALA MUSIC COLLEGE: FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL MUSIC EDUCATION IN THE 1920–1930S

Abstract

The process of forming a professional musical culture, which began in Dagestan in the 1920s, spanned several decades. It was during this period that the first results of a multifaceted policy of cultural construction were achieved. In the broad context of the problems, the central place is given to the development of music education. The article undertakes a cultural and historical analysis of the formation of music education in Dagestan. The inclusion of the educational and cultural development of Dagestan in the general flow of the country’s humanitarian and educational vector is shown. Difficulties of a social and everyday nature in the process of developing the educational process with a general intensive focus on cultural development are noted. The names of outstanding organizers and teachers who made a significant contribution to the musical education of students and the formation of musical professionalism in Dagestan were named. The author comes to the conclusion that G.A. Gasanov, who led this important process, being the first head of a special educational institution, contributed to the formation of performing academic art, a school of composition and the foundations of musical science.