Seminar of Amateur composers

The seminar of Amateur composers - the unique state system of free elective learning in the USSR people gifted in music. It existed in the USSR from the mid 1940s until the late 1980s. Many famous composers and musicians at the beginning of studies were students of these Seminars. For example, Vladimir Dashkevich and , and others.

The idea of such state institutions grew out of the Leningrad branch of the Union of composers of the USSR in the mid 1940s immediately after the great Patriotic War. One of the most prominent ascetics of this idea was the composer and musical activist, son of Gregor Admoni,Johann Admoni. Later (from 1949), he became head of the Leningrad Seminar of Amateur composers.

The Leningrad Seminar of Amateur composers was located in the building of the House of composers in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg), Herzen street (today Bolshaya Morskaya street), the house 45. Seminar Manager - Johann Admoni, composer and musical activist, son of Gregor Admoni. Known seminarians - Vladimir Dashkevich, , Evgeny Kliachkin, Vladimir Anisimoff, and others.

After a successful experience with participation The Leningrad Seminar of Amateur composers such workshops have appeared in other cities of the USSR. For example, in Moscow at the Moscow organization of the Union of Soviet Composers of the USSR. The seminars were acting within the framework of the Statutes of the Union of composers. This allowed students-seminarians to act in different musical secondary and higher educational institutions. In particular, students-seminarians passed examinations in the Leningrad Conservatory and Moscow Conservatory on a general basis, but they had a great knowledge in the field of music.

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