Metadata: Collection of Materials on the History of Music Organisations
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. 4
- Title:
- Collection of Materials on the History of Music Organisations
- Title (official language):
- Собрание материалов к истории музыкальных организаций
- Date(s):
- 1859/1968
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 458 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains materials mainly from the St. Petersburg, Moscow, Khar’kov, Rostov and Odessa branches of the Imperial Russian Music Society (IRMO): bylaws and reports on the society’s activities (1863-1914); programs and posters of concerts featuring A. I. Ziloti, A. V. Zeigler, and others; documents of various music organisations, including the Chamber Music Society, the Society of Fine Arts of the Education League, the Union of Drama and Music Writers, the Society to Benefit Needy Musicians and their Families, etc. Pertaining to the history of Jews in Russia are programs and pamphlets, at times in Russian and Yiddish, from Jewish Folk Music Society concerts, including at the small and great halls of the conservatory, the hall of the Public Library, the Musical Drama Theatre and the hall of the Assembly of the Nobility; these indicate performances of works composed by members of the Jewish Folk Music Society: I. S. Aisberg, Joseph Achron, A. M. Zhitomirskii, Moisei Milner, S. B. Rozovskii, L. I. Saminskii, Efrayim Shkliar, M. A. Shalyt, L. M. Tseitlin, Iu. D. Engel’ and others. There is also mention of a keynote address delivered by Rabbi M. G. Aizenshtadt (1909-19), a list of addresses of the premises of the Jewish Folk Music Society in St. Petersburg during this period and the programme of a literary and musical evening held by the Russian Society for the Study of Jewish Life organised by L. Andreev, A. Benua, I. Bikhter, Z. Gippius, A. Siloti, M. Gorky, P. Miliukov, F. Chaliapin and others; the programme also lists the members of the society’s committee, including Maxim Gorky, Honorary Academician D. N. Ovsianiko-Kulikovskii, Prof. A. V. Kartashev, State Duma member N. V. Nekrasov, A. M. Kalmykova, N. N. Korobka, Prof. V. I. Semevskii, and Prof. M. V. Bernatskii (1910s).
- Archival history:
- This fonds represents a collection of various materials formed from documents received from various organisations and individuals. Most of the fonds was formed in 1961-62; it was then supplemented until 1988. Materials of the fonds were inventoried by N. Kozlova and G. Kopytova.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
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:
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Music
- Music--Composers
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single series (in two parts) arranged mainly by theme and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary