THE ROLE OF RUSSIAN MUSICIANS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF FORMATION OF CHINESE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Russian musicians played a significant role in the history of modern Chinese music education, especially in teaching musical performance, which allowed ancient China to raise the level of professional music education to the international level in a short period of time. The article describes the importance of Russian musicians in the first half of the 20th century, when professional musical performance education in China was just emerging. The musical performance education originated in the northern city of Harbin and the southern city of Shanghai. It is noted that in academic works published in China, as a rule, an adequate assessment is given of the exceptional role of musicians from Russia in the exploration of the Western musical heritage by the Chinese art. In publications addressed to the general public, this role is often downplayed. From the author’s point of view, this is not true. Russian musicians have made an invaluable contribution to the formation and subsequent development of Chinese musical performance and largely predetermined the success of Chinese musical culture today.