Moldavian musical culture in the late 19th - early 20th centuries: Bessarabians - graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatory

The paper represents the first musicological experience of research on the succession of the performing and pedagogical traditions of the St. Petersburg Conservatory by natives of Bessarabia. It is based on materials from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory archive and collections of the National Museum of History of Moldova. In the late 19th - early 20th centuries talented Moldavians got the opportunity to get professional music education in the first Russian Conservatory founded by Anton Rubinstein. After graduating from the Conservatory, many of the Bessarabians returned home, becoming the successors of St. Petersburg's cultural traditions and the founders of the national performing school. Among them there are L. Lypkovskaya, Ju. Guz, A. Stadnitskaya, M. Pester, G. Yatsentkovsky, Z. Boldur, K. Fainstein, and M. Daylis, whose names are included in the golden fund of Moldavian culture.