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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-94Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Rossiiskii natsional'nyi muzei muzyki (Muzei muzyki)Fond arkhivno-rukopisnykh materialov [Fond of Archival and Manuscript Materials] Website: http://glinka.museum/about-associatio... Opening hours: MThF 10:00–16:00, Sa 12:00–18:00Holdings Total: 540 fonds; over 400,000 units; 16th c.–to present personal papers—530 fonds The museum serves as the central repository for manuscript materials relating to the world of music and undoubtedly holds one of the largest and most extensive collections of its kind in Russia. The composition and content of the archival fonds are linked with the musical profile of the museum and therefore include all types of archival materials that pertain to music in Russia and abroad. The earliest documents are the early Russian thirteenth- to fifteenth-century choral manuscripts in both linear and non-linear, neumatic notation, and also musical primers (azbuki). Among institutional records, the fonds of music schools include documentation from the Moscow Conservatory (from 1866) and its various divisions or departments (opera studios, the music library, and the research division, among others); the State Institute of Musicology (Gosudarstvennyi institut muzykal'noi nauki); the State Academy of Arts (Gosudarstvennaia Akademiia khudozhestvennykh nauk); and the Central Music-Pedagogical Institute for External Students (Tsentral'nyi zaochnyi muzykal'no-pedagogicheskii institut). Fonds from social organizations are represented by documents from the Russian Music Society (Russkoe muzykal'noe obshchestvo—RMO) (1859–1917), its Moscow branch (1860–1917), and its provincial branches; and the Ethnographic Music Commission (Muzykal'no-etnograficheskaia komissiia). A large part of the materials consists of documents from various repertory and production companies like the Russian Opera in Paris and the Moscow State Jewish Theater (Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi evreiskii teatr), and numerous symphonic orchestras and ensembles. There are also records of such music publishing houses as P.I. Iurgenson, Iu.G. Zimmerman, and M.P. Beliaev, and several specialist musicology journals, such as “Musical Education” (Muzykal'noe obrazovanie) and “Soviet Music Dictionary” (Sovetskii muzykal'nyi slovar'). The division holds the personal archives of composers, performers, teachers, and music critics, which contain manuscript scores, personal papers, and other biographical materials. Most important are those of A.A. Aliab'ev, P.I. Tchaikovsky (Chaikovskii), M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov, S.S. Prokof'ev, S.V. Rakhmaninov, and S.N. Vasilenko. The postrevolutionary period is represented by personal papers of A.A. Babadzhanian, A.F. Gedike, R.M. Glier, D.B. Kabalevskii, D.F. Oistrakh, D.D. Shostakovich, G.V. Sviridov, R.K. Shchedrin, and many others. There are also collections of autographs and original music scores of M.A. Balakirev, A.P. Borodin, and P.I. Tchaikovsky, A.K. Glazunov, M.I. Glinka, and N.A. Rimskii-Korsakov, to name only a few. Among foreign composers there are collections of manuscripts and autographs of Ludwig van Beethoven, Ferenz (Franz) Liszt, and Richard Wagner. The division possesses several special collections of music manuscripts, most important being the collection of religious music manuscripts acquired from the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theater Museum, which includes the religious works of Guiseppe Sarti, and of the Ukrainian composers M.S. Berezovs'kyi (Rus. Berezovskii) and D.S. Bortnians'kyi (Rus Bortnianskii), along with the collection of manuscripts from the library of the Vorontsov Museum in Alupka in the Crimea (18th–20th cc.). A special separate collection is devoted to documents pertaining to international music competitions such as the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, the Glinka Vocal Competition, and the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. The “Album Collection” contains albums of the recordings of piano and vocal works written inthe 1830s and 1840s together with the original works of various Russian and foreign composers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Reference facilities: There are inventories and bound or card catalogues covering all of the holdings, which are arranged in fonds according to archival principles. Copy facilities: Both photographic and xerox copying facilities are available. |
