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1 Federal State Budget Educational Establishment of Higher Professional Education The Saratov state Conservatory (academy) of a name of L. V. Sobinov
The analysis of the main properties of classical music is carried out. In the historical review the author relies not only on Platon, Aristotle, G. W. W. Hegel, A. F. Losev’s philosophical provisions, but also on modern researches of theologians and philosophers, researches of psychologists and teachers. It is revealed that classical music, being part of spiritual culture, possesses the following major features: is means of intellectual development, an emotional source of thinking; means of communication of people; means of a catharsis: clearing mentality, is capable to cause to life huge, before suppressed forces. And, at last, the major for our research quality: she not only “reports” universal cultural wealth, but also owing to special emotional infectivity allows to endure them, doing by own experience of the personality. Therefore, classical music is important means of spiritual andm oral education.