Metadata: N. I. Pirkovskii
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Russian Institute of Art History
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российский институт истории искусств
- Postal address:
- 190000, St. Petersburg, Isaakievskaia pl., d. 5
- Phone number:
- (812) 315-45-49
- Web address:
- http://artcenter.ru/structure/kabinet-rukopisej/
- Email:
- spb@artcenter.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 73
- Title:
- N. I. Pirkovskii
- Title (official language):
- Пирковский Н. И.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Pirkovskii, Naum Isaakovich
- Date(s):
- 1927/1969
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 106 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- Most of the fonds consists of N. I. Pirkovskii’s correspondence with various institutions and individuals, including I. G. Admoni, E. F. Gnesina, M. A. Glukh, G. M. Gnesina, Iu. G. Krein and others (1930-69). Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture include a letter to N. I. Pirkovskii from the Cabinet of Jewish Culture of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR regarding a plan to organise “a series of performances of works by contemporary Soviet-Jewish composers” (1946); correspondence regarding the transfer of the Beregovskii archive to the State Research Institute of Theatre and Music (NII TIM), including letters from M. Ia. Beregovskii, his wife S. I. Beregovskaia and daughter E. M. Beregovskaia (1947, 1959, 1960, and undated), Iu. A. Kremlev (1959), and I. I. Zemtsovskii (1965).
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Naum Isaakovich Pirkovskii (1906-69) was a composer. In 1922-23, he studied at the Kiev Institute of Music and Drama and from 1924 to 1927 the Kiev Conservatory. In 1931, he graduated from the Gnesin Musical Technicum, having studied composition with M. F. Gnesin. From 1931 to 1934, he worked as a music arranger at theatres in Kiev. From 1934 to 1941, he was editor of music broadcasting on Ukrainian radio. From 1945 to 1949, he lived in Odessa and from 1949 in Leningrad. His best-known compositions include: for choir and symphony orchestra: “The Ballad of Zoia Kosmodem’ianskaia” (1948); for symphony orchestra: “The Birobidzhan Poem” (1938) and “Dance” (1952); for string orchestra: “A Dramatic Ballad” (1942); for string quartet: “Variations on a Jewish Theme” (1940) and “Suites 1 and 2” (1941, 1945); for woodwind quartet: “Five Preludes” (1935) and “Miniatures” (1965); for violin and piano: “A Melody” (1955); for solo piano: “Ballads” (1949, 1951), “Preludes” (1952), and “Lyrical Sketches” (1962); for voice and piano: the cycles: “Motherland” (set to words by V. Sosiura, 1948), “The Pushkin Notebook” (1949), “Left March” (set to words by Vladimir Maiakovskii, 1962), etc.; sentimental ballads set to words by M. Aliger, V. Bychko, N. Gribachev, P. Komarov, M. Ryl’skii, P. Tychina, A. Turchinskaia, L. Khaustov, G. Emin, etc.; for choir: “Cantata” (set to words by Vladimir Maiakovskii, 1964); and choral arrangements of works by M. Lermontov, N. Zabolotskii, L. Oshanin, N. Poliakov, L. Khaustov, etc. He also reworked folk songs.
The Russian Institute of Art History (RIII RAS) is a research institute of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. It was founded in 1912 by Count V P Zubov on the model of Florence’s Istituto statale d’arte. Originally it was called the Institute of Art History and was housed in the mansion of V P Zubov. After the October Revolution, Zubov transferred his home to the new government and the institute became a state institution, in 1920 receiving the new title of Russian Institute of Art History. It has undergone several name changes over the course of its existence – from 1924-31, it was called the State Institute of Art History; from 1933-37, the State Academy of Art History; from 1958-62, the State Research Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography; and since 1992, the Russian Institute of Art History. The institute’s staff included Iu N Tynianov, B M Eikhenbaum, B V Asaf’ev, V M Zhirmunskii, A V Preobrazhenskii and other well-known literary critics and musicologists.
The Manuscripts Office (formerly the Historiography Office, the Office of Archival Fonds) of the Russian Institute of Art History features a collection of unique documents covering Russian musical and theatre life of the 18th to 20th centuries. It was organised in 1938, when the institute received collections of the Leningrad Philharmonic’s Museum of Music History. The Manuscripts Office currently has 130 fonds of personal provenance, as well as a number of other collections.
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Music
- Music--Composers
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single series arranged by theme and in part chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary