On Thursday, the Russian House in Dhaka in cooperation with the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy organised an event dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian pianist and teacher Elena Gnesina, the founder of a higher educational institution for musicians - the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
Director of the Russian House in Dhaka P Dvoychenkov mentioned in his welcoming speech that Elena Gnesina is known primarily as a teacher who created a multi-stage system of music education in Russia: school - college - university, according to a press release.
Few people know that after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory she could have made a brilliant career as a performer abroad, but she preferred this rosy prospect to teaching in her native country. Elena Fabianovna gave 75 years of her life to pedagogy.
The uniqueness of Gnesina's personality is that, as the director and artistic director of the school and later of the Gnessin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute, she continued to perform as a pianist and taught piano classes and methods of teaching piano.
In her multifaceted work, a special place was occupied by communication with the youngest musicians, especially for whom Gnesina composed pieces and etudes, which were included in the "Piano Alphabet" created by her.
During the presentation presented by students of the Russian language courses at the Russian House in Dhaka, the participants learned about the life and multifaceted activities of the Russian and Soviet pianist, composer, teacher and Honored Artist Elena Fabianovna Gnessina. During the event, several episodes of her work were also presented.
Elena Gnesina developed the best traditions of the Russian piano school. Her famous students were the pianist L N Oborin, the composer A I Khachaturian, the conductors E F Svetlov and G N Rozhdestvensky, and her musical and pedagogical activity was marked by the art of communicating with her students.
As part of the event, a documentary film "The House Where Music Lives" was shown, timed to coincide with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Elena Gnessina. The narrative of the film reveals not only facts from the life of Elena Fabianovna, but also the history of the formation of Gnessin educational institutions, as well as key periods in the development of Russian, Soviet, and later Russian musical education.
