The Gnesin Academy of Music is a State Institution in Moscow Founded as a private music school by Elena, Evgeniya and Mariya Gnesin in 1895, in 1920 it was divided into an elementary school and a secondary school, and later, in 1944, became an Institute for Musical Education. The Academy adopted its present name in 1992, and includes four schools: elementary school, ten-year primary school, secondary school and academy, with postgraduate courses. The Gnesin Academy of Music includes a teaching staff of some four hundred, with over two thousand Russian and foreign students.
