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DOI: 10.18413/2408-932X-2019-5-2-0-2

THE RUSSIAN MUSICAL EMIGRATION IN THE SERB PROVINCE: RUSSIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL LIFE IN NIŠ BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS

The paper discusses the contribution of the Russian emigration to the musical life of Niš, a town in southeast Serbia, which in the interwar period, compared to Belgrade and other major cities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana), was a peripheral, therefore, in case of this topic an unexplored area. Researching the experience of the emigration on a micro-level and mechanisms of their cultural and artistic integration in a new environment, based on articles from the local press of this time, we sought to determine the role of Russian professional and amateur musicians in shaping and advancing different aspects of musical life in Niš (choir, instrumental, vocal and stage-music performance and music pedagogy). Cultural environment of the town, which in the previous decades was formed and established on the national tradition, survived under the centuries of Ottoman domination, thanks to the Russian refugee intelligence in the period between the two world wars has greatly enhanced and modernized not only by the elements of Russian spirituality and artistic creativity, but also by the achievements of Western European musical practice.

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