Pedagogical Manual of the Process of Training the Piano Composition by S. V. Rachmaninov by Students of People’s Republic of China

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of training the composition by S. V. Rachmaninov by Chinese pianist students. It is shown that these problems are due to an insufficient level of knowledge about the traditional spiritual content of Russian culture, that are the fundamental basis of the composer’s music, the characteristics and key themes of his work, and the focus of Chinese pedagogy on the technological side of learning. According to the author, an important step on the path of Chinese students to understanding and professional interpretation of Rachmaninov’s music can be the training of the composer’s music. The features of the refraction of the program of the phenomenon in piano compositions by S. V. Rachmaninov are considered. It was concluded that study of program could be an important impetus in the work on identifying the “invisible subtext” of the composer’s non-programmed piano opuses. Approaches to teaching Chinese students based on identifying the concept of non- programmed Rachmaninov’s piano music are proposed. The characteristics of pedagogy are characterized depending on the orientation towards the disclosure of programmed, non-programmed and conceptual in the compositions.

Keywords

• compositions by s. v. rachmaninov
• piano class
• training
• chinese students
• pedagogical manual
• program
• hidden program
• conceptuality