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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: G-8Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Nauchnaia muzykal'naia biblioteka im. S.I. Taneeva Moskovskoi gosudarstvennoi konservatorii im. P.I. Chaikovskogo (NMBT)Previous names
The Moscow Conservatory was opened in 1866 on the basis of music classes of the Moscow Branch of the Russian Music Society under the initiative of N.G. Rubinstein (Rubinshtein), who served as its first director from 1866 to 1881. The library was founded on the basis of Rubinstein’s private collection of books, sheet music, and manuscript music scores, which he had presented to the music classes in 1860. The library collection, together with the music classes, formally came under the authority of the Conservatory in 1872, but the library only became a properly organized book repository in 1893, when I.P. Shoning took over the duties of librarian. In 1924 the library acquired the holdings of the Library of Music Theory (Muzykal'no-teoreticheskaia biblioteka) under the Russian Academy of Art Studies (Rossiiskaia akademiia khudozhestvennykh nauk—RAKhN), and in the same year also took over part of the fonds of the disbanded Choral Academy (Khorovaia akademiia), which was formerly the Synodal Secondary School (Sinodal'noe uchilishche). In 1934 part of the fonds of the Music Division of the Library of the Academy of Sciences (BAN—G–16) were also transferred to the library. During the 1930s the conservatory library amassed a huge collection of original manuscripts of numerous composers and a series of archives formerly belonging to various institutions and private individuals. But in 1943 all of these materials were transferred to the Central Museum of Musical Culture (Tsentral'nyi muzei muzykal'noi kul'tury). In 1956, to mark the centenary of the birth of the Russian composer Sergei Ivanovich Taneev (1856–1915), who had been a professor at the Conservatory, the Music Library of the Moscow Conservatory was renamed in his honor. N.B. For the Scientific Archive and the N.G. Rubinstein Museum of the Conservatory, see E–93. |
