The Period of Evacuation in the Work of K. Erdeli: 1941-1943
The article examines the main directions of creative activity of the outstanding Soviet harpist Ksenia Erdeli during the years of the Great Patriotic War: from October 1941 to November 1943. The time spent in difficult military conditions far from home, not only did not become a period of "creative decline" for Ksenia Aleksandrovna, but, on the contrary, was quite rich and fruitful. This concerns, first of all, performing activities, as well as the resumption of work in the orchestra during this period, which the harpist completed in peacetime back in 1938. The study is based on archival materials - letters from K. Erdeli from evacuation to an assistant at the Moscow Conservatory M. Mchedelov. It seems that the correspondence contains valuable information that allows for the first time to introduce the factual accuracy of biographical events into scientific use, as well as to compose a much more detailed picture in the field of studying the work of the harpist of the above-mentioned period.