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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: G-19Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Nauchnaia muzykal'naia biblioteka Sankt-Peterburgskoi gosudarstvennoi konservatorii im. N.A. Rimskogo-Korsakova (NMB SPbGK)Nauchno-issledovatel'skii otdel rukopisei [Scientific Research Division of Manuscripts] Reading room: +7 812 311-64-89 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://library.conservatory.ru/jirbis2/; http://consortium.ruslan.ru/colibry/m...; http://consortium.ruslan.ru/colibry/m... (Eng) Opening hours: M–F 11:00–18:00; RdngRm: MW 12:00–17:00Head: Larisa Alekseevna Miller (tel. +7 812 644-99-88, add 130); e-mail [email protected] Holdings Total: 9,400 units; early 18th–20th cc. (some documents 15th–17th cc.) music scores—2,500 units (15th–20th cc.); personal papers, letters—ca. 5,000 units; photographs, postcards—ca. 2,500 units (mid 19th–20th cc.) The division houses autograph music scores, documents relating to the life and activities of Russian and Western European musicians, including correspondence and photographs, a collection of manuscript choral scores, in ordinary and neumatic notation (15th–20th cc.). Part of the choral collection belonged to the famous researcher on early choral music, S.V. Smolenskii. Among them there are collections of music scores for church services, written in traditional and neumatic notation (irmologii, oktoikhi, trezvony prazdnikov, obikhody, and others), music primers, a collection of music scores with Russian poetry of the eighteenth century, and a collection of Catholic hymns in Latin (15th–16th cc.) from the collection of the Grand Duke Michael (Mikhail) Pavlovich. There are also materials from the collection of the Russian Music Society and from the libraries of Anton Rubinstein (A.G. Rubinshtein), A.K. Glazunov, A.S. Dargomyzhskii, F.I. Stravinskii, N.A. Rimskii-Korsakov, V.V. Stasov, and the archives of A.N. Serov and M.Iu. Viel'gorskii, although most of the materials have not been catalogued according to the collection of their provenance. There are individual scores of composers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including A.A. Aliab'ev, D.S. Bortnians'kyi (Bortnianskii), A.E. Varlamov, M.Iu. Viel'gorskii, S.A. Degtiarev, and O.A. Kozlovskii. The main part of the holdings consists of scores of Russian composers of the late nineteenth century to the twentieth. Among these are compositions of M.I. Glinka, A.S. Dargomyzhskii, M.P. Musorgskii, A.P. Borodin, N.A. Rimskii-Korsakov, and P.I. Tchaikovsky (Chaikovskii), autograph scores of M.A. Balakirev, A.N. Serov, César Cui (Ts.A. Kiui), and A.G. Rubinstein, among others, including fragments and scores of the operas “A Life for the Tsar” by Glinka, “Prince Igor'” by Borodin, and “May Night,” “Sadko,” and “The Tsar’s Bride” by Rimskii-Korsakov. Most complete is the collection of the compositions of A.K. Glazunov (ca. 100 autograph scores). The division holds copies of manuscript librettos and scores for orchestration of operas performed in Russia in the eighteenth century, as well as works of Western European composers, such as Francesco Araia, Baldassare Galuppi, and others. The extensive epistolary legacy of Russian and foreign composers, performers and musical figures (about 5,000 units) is arranged as a separate collection. The division also retains organizational correspondence of the late nineteenth-century Patronage Council for the Encouragement of Russian Composers and Musicians (Popechitel'nyi sovet dlia pooshchreniia russkikh kompozitorov i muzykantov), and of the employees of the M.P. Beliaev Publishing House in Leipzig (Beliaevskii arkhiv). The collection of letters includes those of Borodin, Glazunov, A.K. Liadov, Serov, Rubinstein, and others. There are also letters signed by Johannes Brahms, Carl Maria von Weber, Charles Gounod, Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saëns, Richard Wagner, Felix Mendelssohn, and others, as well as two letters signed by Ludwig van Beethoven and draftsof the adagio movement of his string quartet (op. 18, no. 6). Among the treasures from the M.P. Azanchevskii library there is an album with the autographs of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Luigi Cherubini, François Adrien Boieldieu, Gasparo Spontini, Robert Schumann, CarlMaria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn, Gaetano Donizetti. The iconographic fond includes collections of original photographs (many with autographs) and postcards, dating from the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are portraits of teachersand students of the Conservatory (1860s–1880s), such as A.G. Rubinstein, A.N. Esipova, A.K. Glazunov, and K.Iu. Davydov, and of Russian and foreign composers and opera singers, such as F.I. Chaliapin (Shaliapin), Angelo Masini, and Antonio Cotogni, among others, and photographs of the reconstruction of the Conservatory building in 1891–1896. Working conditions: Materials are delivered to the library reading room the day they are ordered. Reference facilities: There are card catalogues and inventory registers for all materials in the manuscript sector. The general card catalogue of the library also covers the Sector for Manuscripts, Rare Books, and Music Scores, with a separate section for manuscripts; it has recently been prepared in a microfiche edition which can be purchased from Norman Ross Publishers (New York) (g–837). A separate catalogue of the manuscript materials is in preparation, including the collection of M.P. Azanchevskii. Copy facilities: Facilities are available for xerox and photographic copies. |
