Musicology Annotation << Back Pedagogical activity of V. Fraenkel in China Fan Yu, Anna E. Krom The article is devoted to the activities of the German musician – composer, performer and teacher – Wolfgang Fraenkel in China. For several years (from 1941 to 1947), he taught composition and all theoretical disciplines at the Shanghai Conservatoire and brought up a whole galaxy of Chinese professional musicians. Based on the Austro-German traditions of music education, he not only “passed” with the Chinese students a centuries-old path of development of European culture, but also introduced them to the newest and most actual phenomena in the world of composition – atonal music and Twelve-tone technique. As a result, his first student, Sang Tong, created the fi rst atonal compositions in China, which at the same time possessed Chinese national coloring. Keywords: Wolfgang Fraenkel, Shanghai, Sang Tong, Qin Xixuan, atonal music, Twelve-tone technique, composition lessons. Contacts: E-mail: fanyu-1@outlook.com, E-mail: yannakrom@yandex.ru Pp. 42-48.