Contribution of tomsk professorship to the development musical culture city in the late XIX - early ХХ centuries

In this article is estimating the contribution of the first Siberian professors of Tomsk's shigher education institutions in the late XIX - early XX century, which came to serve in the Tomsk University of Technology and Teacher's Institute, is actively involved in local public life, in particular to the Tomsk branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (TB IRMS), and thereby contributed to the formation of social and cultural environment of the city and the existence of new forms of music in the region. With the opening of the University of Tomsk patriarchal automatically fell into the category of perspective in the development and attractive cities to live, and over time more and rose to the definition of "Siberian Athens". Originally a faculty body of the University was a highly cultured and educated people who are in Siberia from the European part of the Empire. Here they enthusiastically included in the provincial intellectual and artistic society, bringing real benefits to a particular field. Significant was the contribution of the Tomsk professors in the musical life of the city, where for 10 years there Branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (TO IRMS). Tomsk professors to be involved in the activities laid TO IRMO Kulturtraeger tradition in the region, acting in concert as performers participating in the organizational affairs of the Department, giving courses of lectures on the history of music, etc. In the houses of Tomsk professors impromptu concerts, which were performed on new items Russian and European classical music. This form of music on the existence of the XIX-XX centuries was very common in many Russian provinces in each region had its own peculiarities. The University Tomsk she had "the face of a professor." Professors and their wives often participated in concerts TO IRMO. The most active and well-known of them - Ya Zale-skaya, O. Sobolevskaya, O. Zubasheva, Aleksandrova-Levenson. She and her husband appeared in many published articles about music. Professor-pharmacologist N. A. Alexandrov lectured on the theory and history of music at the university and public lectures to different audiences of the city and the region. Also N.A. Alexandrov created first Siberian Choral Singers Society (founded in the season 1908/09) and the People's conservatory, which opened in 1917 (it was the first and last of its director). Professor I. Michaelovskiy led encyclopedic course (from 1913 to 1919.) In Tomsk School of Music, which in 2012 celebrated its 100th anniversary. Thanks to the work of the Tomsk professors formed not only the musical infrastructure of Tomsk, but also socio-cultural environment of Western Siberian province as a whole.

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