Metadata: M. O. Shteinberg
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. 28
- Title:
- M. O. Shteinberg
- Title (official language):
- Штейнберг М. О.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Shteinberg, Maksimilian Oseevich
- Date(s):
- 1883/1952
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1,044 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains a considerable set of documents that pertain to Jewish history and culture; these may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Materials of relatives of M. O. Shteinberg, including a service record of the work activities of his father, the Hebraist and Crown Rabbi Joshua Steinberg (1836-1908), who worked as an inspector at the state-sponsored Vil’na Jewish Teachers’ Institute and censor of Hebrew- and Yiddish-language books, and who taught Hebrew and Aramaic at the state-sponsored Vil’na Rabbinical Academy.
2) Handwritten sheet music by M. O. Shteinberg, including a notebook containing drafts of sheet music for the Jewish song “Der Filosof”, which the composer was adapting for the well-known chamber singer Irma Iaunzem (1925-33, 1934); autograph manuscripts of sheet music and arrangements for adaptations of Jewish, including Hasidic, melodies, including “A lid fun a feygele” (Yiddish – “A Little Bird’s Song”), “Der Filosof”, etc. (1930-32).
3) Programs of concerts in which M. O. Shteinberg took part along with Irma Iaunzem, featuring performances of works by the composers A. M. Veprik, K. A. Korchmarev, S. E. Faintukh, and L. L. Shtreikher; as well as of concerts of the Music Institute in Jerusalem that featured works by such members of the Jewish Folk Music Society as Joseph Achron, S. B. Rozovskii, Moisei Milner, and others (1908-46).
4) Letters to M. O. Shteinberg from I. S. Aisberg, M. A. Bikhter, M. I. Brian, Iu. L. Veisberg, A. M. Veprik, A. M. Zhitomirskii, L. L. Shtreikher, and others (1903-46).
5) Materials of other persons, including editions of sheet music: “A Hebrew Capriccio” (“Capriccio Hebraique”, op. 2) for piano and large orchestra by I. S. Aisberg and “Jewish Lullaby” for violin and piano by R. Kheif, including dedicatory inscriptions by the authors (1938-40); letters to Iu. L. Veisberg from I. S. Aisberg, M. F. Gnesin, E. F. Gnesina, L. I. Saminskii, and others (1915-32); books by M. Ia. Beregovskii – Yidishe sovetishe folkslider mit melodies (Jewish Soviet Folk Songs, with Melodies; Kiev, 1940) and Yidisher muzik-folklor (Jewish Musical Folklore; vol. 1; Moscow, 1934) – given to M. O. Shteinberg by the author.
This fonds previously had the archival reference code ‘G’.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Maksimilian Oseevich Shteinberg (1883-1946) was a composer, conductor, educator and musician. In 1907, he graduated from the natural science department of St. Petersburg University and in 1908, graduated the St. Petersburg Conservatory, having studied composition with N. A. Rimskii-Korsakov, who that same year became his father-in-law. From 1908 to 1946, he taught composition and music theory at the conservatory; from 1917 to 1931, he was dean of the composition department; from 1931 to 1934, he was head of the conducting department; from 1934 to 1939, he was deputy director; and from 1939 he was head of the composition faculty. He became a professor in 1915, and in 1943 earned his doctorate. Among M. O. Shteinberg’s students were D. D. Shostakovich, Iu. A. Shaporin, A. F. Paschenko, V. V. Shcherbachev and S. A. Chernetskii. Many of his compositions were based on folklore: of his five symphonies, the third featured elements of Jewish music (1929), the fourth (Turksib) featured Kazakh and Kyrgyz themes (1933) and the fifth, a symphony-rhapsody, Uzbek themes (1943); he also composed the capriccio “In Armenia” (1940) and the Uzbek overture “Forward” (1943). Other works by M. O. Shteinberg include the ballets Metamorphosis (1913; based on Ovid; staged in 1914 at S. Diaghilev’s “Russian Seasons” in Paris) and Tyl Ulenspiegel (1936; based on the work by Charles de Coster); the cantatas “The Rusalka” (1907; based on the poem by Lermontov), “Heaven and Earth” (1918; based on the drama by Byron), and “In Memory of A. S. Pushkin” (1937); as well as chamber and instrumental works, sentimental ballads and reworked folk songs (including two Jewish melodies).
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
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises three series arranged by structure. There is a dual numbering system (old and new), with all documents in the fonds physically arranged in accordance with the old numbering.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary