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Last update of repository: 17 March 2020

Rossiiskii natsional'nyi muzei muzyki (Muzei muzyki)


Fond muzykal'nykh zvuko- i videozapisei
[Fond of Music Sound and Video Recordings]

Website: http://glinka.museum/about-associatio...

Opening hours: MF 10:00–16:00, W 13:00–19:00

Holdings

Total: ca. 89,000 units
gramophone records—ca. 60,000 units

The museum holds gramophone records and compact disks of musical works written by Russian and foreign composers. They include recordings made by F.I. Chaliapin (Shaliapin) (1898) and N.I. Zabela-Vrubel', and recordings of the M.E. Piatnitskii Peasant Choir.
        Recorded works for piano represent practically all famous Russian composers—M.I. Glinka, A.S. Dargomyzhskii, M.P. Musorgskii (Mussorgsky), A.P. Borodin, M.A. Balakirev, and A.K. Glazunov, among others. There are also recordings of piano works performed by the composers themselves, including Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Charles Saint-Saöns, A.N. Scriabin (Skriabin), and Maurice Ravel.
        Choral singing is represented by recordings of the concerts of D.S. Bortnians'kyi and the quartets of I.V. Laskovskii.
        Contemporary music can be heard in the works of I.F. Stravinskii (Igor Stravinsky), K.A. Erdeli, E.V. Obraztsova, A.G. Shnitke, E.V. Denisov, R.K. Shchedrin, and many other composers and performers.


Working conditions:
There are no facilities for listening to phonograph records. When necessary, researchers may obtain a cassette tape copy, which can be listened to in the acoustical recording work area.

Reference facilities:
There are card catalogues of performers and composers.

Copy facilities:
There are facilities for making copies of music only from magnetic tapes.


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