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 Aleksander Averkin, 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.