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THE SCIENTIFIC MUSIC
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THE SCIENTIFIC MUSIC
LIBRARY |
 In
1862 the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire was founded by the Russian Symphony
Society on the initiative of A.Rubinstein. The history of the library began
upon the commissioning of the Conservatoire. The core of its stock was
made by the note collection of the Russian Symphony Society. Books, scores
and manuscripts from private collections kept coming into it in the first
decades of its existence.
One of the first major donation was the collection of musical scores and works of music theory of A.Rubinstein, the first director of St. Petersburg Conservatoire. At the turn of the 20th century the stock replanished from the private collections of M.Azanchevsky (including the collection of Paris musicologist and librarian G.E.Anders), V.Kologrivov, N.Afanasyev, M.Vielgorsky, A.Rubets, M.Belyayev, A.Famintzyn, N.Solovyev, A.Berngard and other musicians. As the activities of the Conservatoire were expanding the significance of the library grew likewise. At the present time, the library shelves upwards of 500,000 volumes of musical publications, books and magazines published here and abroad (including rare editions), dissertations, manuscripts, photographs, playbills, booklets, posters. The library is organized into the following departments: musical score publications; scientific and training publications; foreign publications; reference and bibliography; manuscripts; international book exchange; computerized library management. There are a book-lending section and a reading-room to serve library users. |
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