Bessarabian piano art at the confl uence of the XIX-XX centuries

Since the end of the XIX century — beginning of the XX century, the musical life in Bessarabia is being intensified due to the artistic activity of some professional musicians with studies at Russian and Western European conservatories, thus creating standards of musical education and interpretive mastery with a significant impact on the professional training of pianists. The first musical institutions appear: M. Voloshinovskaya, who had studied in Vienna, opened a private school in 1891 in Chisinau. Previously, in 1890, a music school, accessible to all social classes, was opened at the initiative of Vasile Gutor, born in Chișinău and having graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Professor K. Davydov’s cello class. At the same time, premises of the national school of composition are manifested; the first works for piano being made in the style and forms of Western schools adapted to the native oral sound stratum. As a result of the adaptation and the valorization of musical folklore, professional music is being developed in the Bessarabian area.