Organization of concerts of religious music within the framework of cultural and educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in pre-revolutionary Russia

The article is devoted to the analysis of the cultural and educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the pre-revolutionary period, in particular the organization of concerts of religious music for children and teachers for this purpose. Russian Orthodox Church considers the phenomenon of religious music as a part of Orthodox culture, and also highlights the features of a religious concert as a genre of Russian culture, describes the directions of cultural and educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, which included concert activities. Next, the authors focused on the study of concert activities for children and teachers of three of the most famous Moscow church singing choirs: the Synodal, the Chudovsky Choir and the Society of Lovers of Church Singing in the context of educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church. The place of this concert activity in the work of these groups and the features of the repertoire of such concerts are determined. A separate conclusion is devoted to the influence of the concert activity of religious music on children and teachers, their spiritual enlightenment.