Th e value dimension of schooling through the pianoforte musical instrument in interwar Basarabia

At the beginning of the 19th century, new educational institutions with a musicalartistic profi le were opened, which signifi cantly increased the interest for studying the piano. At the same time, the musical life in Bessarabia is intensifying due to the artistic activity of some professional musicians with studies at conservatories in Russia and Western Europe, creating standards of music education and interpretive mastery, with a signifi cant impact on the professional training of pianists. Th e artistic activity for musical thinking involves performance communication, and the practical study of a musical instrument in its high creative manifestation is intellectually developmental and forms creative artistic consciousness in the student. Th e orientation towards the professional development of musical thinking in pianist students and their intellectual activation requires musical education in a specifi c way of teaching, such as, the penetration into the content of music through analytical interpretation, the provision of rational, priority instruction, in relation to the intuitive one.