Mikhail Glinka''s Memoirs as a Base for Source Study in the Understanding of His Life and Creative Development
This article reveals a new approach to the study of the lives and creative development of outstanding composers in the course of music teacher training. At the moment it is implemented mainly from a musicological viewpoint. The educational activity of composers usually remains out of students' sight. The author considers the inclusion of this aspect into the content of higher education as an extremely important point. It can reveal the reasons that motivate musicians to turn their steps towards teaching; it can also identify the nature of the relationship between musical and educational views of a composer and peculiarities of their implementation in his works. The inclusion of this aspect into the content of the higher level music teacher training presupposes the widening of the source study base, by the inclusion of autobiographical materials. This article presents the implementation of a new approach, inspired by the example of Mikhail Glinka's Memoirs, to the study of the life and creative development of musicians and music educators. The author analyses all four periods of Mikhail Glinka's life and creative method determined by the musician and educator himself from a music-teaching standpoint.