The Odessa State Academy of Music

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Students of the Odessa Academy of music pass their practical training and its graduates successfully work at the Odessa National State Opera and Ballet Theater, the Odessa National symphonic orchestra, the Odessa theater of musical comedy, the V. Vasilko Odessa Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater, in many concert, scientific and educational institutions of Odessa, Ukraine, Autonomous Rep...ublic of Crimea, in Russia, France, Finland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavian republics, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, China, Vietnam, and in many other countries of the world.
The Odessa conservatoire (for the time being – the Odessa national A. V. Nezhdanova academy of music) was created on donations of V. A. Orlov, the chairman of Management of the Odessa branch of IRMS(the Imperial Russian Musical Society), and those of other members of this branch, as well as due to the decision of the Main Management of the Russian musical society on the basis of the Odessa musical school (founded in 1897) on the 8-th of September, 1913. On the territory of the Russian empire the Odessa conservatoire became the fourth higher educational musical institution – after St.-Petersburg, Moscow and Saratov conservatoires. Fast development of the Odessa conservatoire was provided by attraction of outstanding teachers-musicians from Italy, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Austria, St.-Petersburg and Moscow. A Polish composer, a pianist, a conductor and a musicologist Witold Maliszewski (Witold Iosifovich Malishewski) – N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov’s disciple – became the first rector of the Odessa conservatoire. Therefore the Odessa conservatoire turned into a higher educational musical institution of the European level from its very beginning.
Among scientific and pedagogical professional community of the Academy are worthy to be noted: 4 academicians, 41 professors, 11 doctors of sciences, 89 senior lecturers, 76 candidates of science, 9 National Artists of Ukraine, 32 Honored Artists of Ukraine, 17 Honored Workers of arts of Ukraine, 6 Honoured Workers of culture of Ukraine and 1 Honoured Worker of education of Ukraine.
The scale of W. Maliszewski"s creative activities was tremendous. He entered into history of the Odessa conservatoire not only as its talented principal and a musician, but also as a progressive public figure. E.g., in 1917 the first rector addressed the congress of directors and senior teachers of conservatoires in Petrograd. “The southern musical bulletin” wrote: “Only the director of the Odessa conservatoire Professor W.Maliszewski who had girded up his loins for the congress offered six very considerable and important questions to its consideration: 1) separating of musical schools from conservatories; 2) the relation of the state to IRMS; 3) revision of rights as to diplomas and certificates; 4) cancellation of the category of free listeners in conservatoires; 5) revision of military privileges; 6) on returning of the new Statute of the Conservatoire from the ministry and its consensual formulization”.
In the first year of the existence of the Odessa conservatoire 396 pupils from 603 persons who submitted their applications for entering this educational institution were enrolled. Along with that, 395 persons were transferred from the musical school. The greatest number of pupils was accepted in piano classes, a smaller quantity – in violin, vocal, wind instruments, all basic orchestral instruments and music theory classes.
From the beginning of existence of Conservatoire vocal and young opera classes make themselves known alongside with numerous piano classes. J. Reider, D. Delfino-Menotti and Palibina were chief teachers in these classes during those years. In 1913 N. Baryshev, a performer of the opera theater having stage director"s abilities became the head of the opera class. By means of N. Baryshev"s efforts the opera class realized its best performances. The bright culmination of the work of the opera class became “Concerts devoted to national epic” arranged by N. Baryshev at the city theater in 1916 where students of the final year of the conservatory were acting. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov"s operas “Kashchey the Immortal”, “Vera Sheloga” and fragments from “The Tsar"s Bride” accompanied by the conservatoire orchestra under W. I. Maliszewski"s direction were executed. Thus, the first turn-out of vocalists confirmed the fact that the Odessa conservatoire became really “a musical and singing conservatoire” – as musical figures of the city dreamed about it long before its opening.
It is notable that all these structural changes were perceived only as external factors, and no reorganization could extinguish the spirit of creativity that reigned in the Odessa conservatoire and educational institutions connected with it.
The Odessa Academy of music renders methodical assistance and provides teaching personnel for colleges of music of: Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev, Uman, Ternopol, Simferopol, Kirovograd, Krivoy Rog, it works in a close cooperation with the South Ukrainian national pedagogical university K. D. Ushinsky. Almost all members of the Odessa branch of the National Union of composers of Ukraine are graduates from the Odessa conservatoire.
Teachers of the South Ukrainian national pedagogical university K. D. Ushinsky, of the Odessa school of culture and arts K. F. Dankevich, of the Odessa special Prof. P. S. Stolyarsky music school pass their training at the Odessa Academy of music.