Music and Time Annotation << Back Piano Music in the Works of Alexander Vasiliev T.V. Davydova Article is devoted to the original, bright, talented composer of the Chuvash people Alexander Georgiyevich Vasilyev, being the largest professional composer of modern Chuvashia. Relevance of a subject consists in the appeal to a problem perception of national modern music. Pentatonic national culture has the unique color, the bright paint. In article the deep figurative analysis of each prelude is carried out, the dramatic art of all cycle in general is considered. Already in it is early – his composition the art look and temperament of the young composer were turned on an ethnic perspective. The appeal to contemporary records that allowed the author of article to elicit a number of the interesting facts relating to the period of formation of A. G. Vasilyev as the composer is of interest. It is confidently possible to tell that the composer A.G. Vasilyev – one of those artists who indissolubly and entirely connected the life with destiny of the native people with its culture and traditions. The composer, sensitively listening attentively to a melodiko-rhythmic, timbre and coloristic phenomenon of the Chuvash folk music, creates the subjects (later he will often refuse a problem of an author’s temoformirovaniye, taking original national melodies as thematic impulses). «Eleven plays» for A.G. Vasilyev's piano is a work which allows to learn more deeply the Chuvash national traditions in their modern professional refraction. Preludes as practice shows, easily adapt in educational process, in concert halls aren't lost in a brilliant environment of compositions of other composers. Keywords: Pentatonic national culture, ethnic issues, foreplay, traditions, cyclicity, intonation, a phenomenon of national innovation. Contacts: E-mail: ponzik-007@mail.ru Pp. 33-38.