Metadata: I. S. Tomars
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. 146
- Title:
- I. S. Tomars
- Title (official language):
- Томарс И. С.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tomars, Iosif Semenovich
- Date(s):
- 1901/1963
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 20 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains excerpts from the press about the work of I. S. Tomars (1911-17); programs and posters of concerts and various events held by the Jewish Folk Music Society (1908-17), in particular, of a solemn assembly held in the building of a Jewish academy to commemorate the society’s late chair I. M. Knorozovskii, a composer, musicologist and author of numerous articles on Jewish music (1914); the programme of a “Grand Concert of Jewish Folk Music” organised by the society in which I. S. Tomars took part – this included performances of works by I. S. Aisberg, A. A. Krein, B. Levenzon, L. I. Saminskii, S. B. Rozovskii, M. A. Shalyt, and Iu. D. Engel’ (1915). The fonds also includes sheet music editions of works by L. I. Saminskii, I. S. Aisberg and M. A. Shalyt (publications of the Jewish Folk Music Society) and others (1909-10); a considerable number of photographs of I. S. Tomars, including as seen on stage (1900s-60s) and group photographs, in particular, showing a music class at the Peter I Commercial School.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Iosif Semenovich Tomars (1867-1934) was an opera singer and vocal teacher. From 1883 to 1889, he studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (with S. I. Gabel’) and theory (with A. K. Liadov and N. A. Rimskii-Korsakov). He had a small, even, supple voice of a gentle, “velvet” timbre (tenore di grazia). From 1902 to 1923, he gave private singing lessons. From 1907 to 1917, he taught at the Peter I Commercial School and from 1923 to 1934 taught the solo singing class at the Leningrad Conservatory (he was a conservatory professor and from 1928 on its opera studio’s artistic director). Singers who perfected their vocal skills under his guidance included A. M. Bragin, E. E. Vitting, O. I. Kamionskii and L. Ia. Lipkovskaia. He was one of the founders and active participants of the Jewish Folk Music Society, and performed as a soloist at its concerts.
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.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Knorozovskii, I. M.
- Subject terms:
- Music
- Music--Composers
- Newspaper clippings
- Photographs
- Sheet music
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary