The Conservatoire Serge Rachmaninoff de Paris (English translation: Sergei Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris) is a professional music school in Paris, which conducts its courses in both French and Russian. The Conservatoire offers individual instruction in voice and in the standard Western classical musical instruments, as well as in the balalaika and the clarinet in the klezmer and Roma traditions . For studies in music theory, composition, analysis, music history, or theatre (Stanislavski System), pupils attend classes together in groups. Prerequisites The Russian music The musical culture has come to Russia from Europe, but little by little started to develop his own way. Theorists Alexander Serov and Vladimir Stassov identified this way of Russian music. A peak of musical culture has reached the top by the creation of The Five (composers) in the 19th century. The modern Russian music critic Viktor Korshikov (the son of the wife of Vitaliy Peskov) thus summed up: «There is not the development of Russian musical culture without the "Stone Guest". It is three operas - Ivan Soussanine", "Ruslan and Ludmila" and the "Stone guest" have created Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin. "Soussanine" is an opera, where the main character is the people, "Ruslan" is the mythical, deeply Russian intrigue, and a "Guest", in which the drama dominates over the softness of the beauty of sound». These traditions of Russian music, founded and based on the European classical music, have begun to develop musicians of the following generations. Russian Diaspora The Russian revolution of 1917 pushed out of the country a huge amount of its citizens, in the first place of the Russian intelligentsia: the philosophers, writers, musicians, etc. France was considered at the time to the cultural capital of the world, many Russian emigrants came to Paris. And Paris has been taken! Russian Diaspora in France has proven to be a great and has had an influence on the whole of the French culture and mixed with it. The Russian ballet was a huge success, Russian opera companies appeared in Paris featuring Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova, Alexey Tsereteli etc. Russian musical culture became a part of the overall culture of the world, and the Russian musicians in France wanted to keep it. Thus was born the idea of the creation of the Conservatory Russian. History The Conservatoire was established between 1923 and 1931 by some of the most illustrious émigré professors from the music schools of Imperial