The St. Petersburg Score Collection
[See link to database below]
The American Society for Jewish Music traces its roots back to the 1908 founding of The Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, the first Jewish musical institution permitted in Russia. With its emphasis on folkloric collection, new Jewish music composition and performance, over time the Society included such young composers as Joseph Achron, Michail Gnesin, Alexander Krein, Moshe Milner, Solomon Rosowsky and Lazare Saminsky, among others, and it nurtured their work through its own publishing arm.
Thanks to the efforts of Sam Zerin, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan and now a graduate student at New York University, and the generous cooperation of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Gratz College, and project advisors Judith Pinnolis and Paula Eisenstein-Baker, the full run of these scores, most of which are long since out of print, will now be available again, this time online, through the ASJM’s St. Petersburg Score Project. Making the St. Petersburg scores available, as well as the publications of the successor publishers, Juwal and Jibneh with offices in Berlin and Tel Aviv, not only provides important documentation of the work of Jewish composers during the early twentieth century, but will also provide access to these works for interested performers and scholars worldwide.
To access the St. Petersburg Score Collection Database:
[See link to database below]
The American Society for Jewish Music traces its roots back to the 1908 founding of The Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, the first Jewish musical institution permitted in Russia. With its emphasis on folkloric collection, new Jewish music composition and performance, over time the Society included such young composers as Joseph Achron, Michail Gnesin, Alexander Krein, Moshe Milner, Solomon Rosowsky and Lazare Saminsky, among others, and it nurtured their work through its own publishing arm.
Thanks to the efforts of Sam Zerin, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan and now a graduate student at New York University, and the generous cooperation of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Gratz College, and project advisors Judith Pinnolis and Paula Eisenstein-Baker, the full run of these scores, most of which are long since out of print, will now be available again, this time online, through the ASJM’s St. Petersburg Score Project. Making the St. Petersburg scores available, as well as the publications of the successor publishers, Juwal and Jibneh with offices in Berlin and Tel Aviv, not only provides important documentation of the work of Jewish composers during the early twentieth century, but will also provide access to these works for interested performers and scholars worldwide.
To access the St. Petersburg Score Collection Database: