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'''P. Jurgenson''' (in Russian: '''П. Юргенсон''') was, in the early 1900s, the largest publisher of classical music in Russia. |
'''P. Jurgenson''' (in Russian: '''П. Юргенсон''') was, in the early 1900s, the largest publisher of classical sheet music in Russia. |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Revision as of 14:20, 22 July 2010
P. Jurgenson (in Russian: П. Юргенсон) was, in the early 1900s, the largest publisher of classical sheet music in Russia.
History
Founded in 1861, the firm — in it's original form, or as it was amalgamated in 1918 with other Russian music publishing firms into the state owned music publishing monopoly — endured the latter of three of the four below listed eras (the first three were defined by Lenin as corresponding to three chief classes of Russian society):[1]
| Period | Years | |
| The Aristocratic Period | roughly from 1825 to 1861 | |
| The Middle Class, or Bourgeois-Democratic Period | extending approximately from 1861 to 1895 | P. Jurgenson is founded |
| The Proletarian Period | from 1895 to 1991 | Communist Russia begins 1918 |
| Post Soviet Russia | 1991 to present |
The firm was a privately owned Russian company from 1861 to 1918. In 1918, the company was nationalized by the communist regime, as was all other music publishing companies, into a division of the State Publishing House. The music division of the State Publishing House, in 1930, was renamed Gosudarstvennoye Muzykal'noe Izdatelstvo (Государственное музыкальное издательство) — translated at State Music Publishing House, referred to by it's short name, Muzgiz, then, in 1964, referred to as Muzika (or Muzyka or Музыка, in Russian).
Pyotr Ivanovich Jurgenson (1836–1904), born in Estonia, founded P. Jurgenson in 1861 on the advice of Nikolay Rubinstein (1835–1881) – pianist, conductor, founder of the Moscow Conservatoire, and brother of Anton Rubinstein. Upon Pyotr Jurgenson's death in 1904, Boris Petrovich[2] Jurgenson (1868–1935) and Grigory Petrovich Jurgenson (1872–1936), his sons, inherited the firm and Boris became its new head (Tchaikovsky was Boris' godfather). In 1918, Boris became the head of the musical division of the State Publishing House.
See also
References
- ^ Lev Nikolaevich Lebedinsky, Russian Revolutionary Song, Notes, Second Series, Vol. 4, No. 1, Dec. 1946, pg. 20, Music Library Association
- ^ See Russian Patronymic naming convention for an explanation on how a son derives a name by combining the father's given name with the suffix "ovich")