SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY BY PROFESSOR E. BOGOSLOVSKY IN THE CONTEXT OF DOMESTIC MUSICOLOGY’S DEVELOPMENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S BEGINNING

The subject of the study – understanding of the scientific activity by Moscow Conservatory's professor E. Bogoslovsky – a significant figure in the national musical life of the end of the 19th – first third of the 20th century – almost unknown to contemporary musicology. The purpose of the article is to study the activities by E. Bogoslovsky in the context of the national music science's development of the first third of the 20th century. Methodological basis of the work are the following methods: historical and chronological – to reveal the facts of the activities be E. Bogoslovsky as the organizer of scientific work and researcher in the history of music; source study – for studying his scientific heritage, features of his scientific activity in the socio-cultural space of a certain period; logical-generalization – for systematization and generalization of the results of the conducted research. The result of the study is the introduction of the materials on the scientific activity by professor E. Bogoslovsky for the first time in the national musicology, in particular his works «The General History of Music» and «History of Piano Literature in connection with the evolution of styles and forms of Piano Music». Their application in scientific, musical-pedagogical and educational activities will significantly expand the perceptions of domestic musical culture's development. The results of the study made it possible to conclude that E. Bogoslovsky's important role in the development of domestic musicology, in particular, of historical musicology.