ACADEMIC HERITAGE OF SARATOV CONSERVATORY: E. D. ERSHOVA (1942-2001)
The article addresses the academic heritage of L. V. Sobinov Saratov state conservatory where the name of Ershova Elena Dmitrievna - a prominent music historian and a vivid personality in the modern history of the conservatory - stands out. E. D. Ershova’s teaching, scientific, educational and executive endeavor is revealed within the framework of the German contacts of Saratov conservatory, A. G. Schnittke’s oeuvre among them. Transcendent significance of E. D. Ershova’s archive, scientific and creative projects is commemorated as having launched many modern events and conservatory structures. Among them there is “Scientific readings in memory of B. L. Yavorsky” whose name is associated with the meaningful cooperation of Saratov and Moscow conservatoires during World War II. The project of science, information, culture and education “Das Schnittke-Zentrum” is cast in the same mould: created while the composer was living and having been approved by him, it became a powerful “mediator” of cultural contacts between Russia and Germany in the end of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st centuries. Such are the publishing projects, reviving the endeavors of eminent musicians of the first decades of the conservatory, as well as the modern update of the educational courses of music work analysis and harmony.