In 1920, Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyli began a movement aimed at propagating classical music among the people.

In the 1920s, he established the Oriental Department, where Azeri folk music was taught both traditionally (orally) and by European methods, i.e., using notes.

Along with composer Muslim Magomayev, he developed the textbook Azeri Folk Songs, published in 1927.

[2] In 1930, the Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Armenian Cathedral of Baku was demolished as part of the early Soviet atheist policy to make way for the construction of the new academy building.

During World War II, the conservatoire executives organized hundreds of concerts for military units and soldiers who recovered in hospitals.