Svetlana Tairova,
Editor-in-Chief, General Director
Nowadays the Compozitor Publishing House • Saint-Petersburg is the group of high professionals, where the traditions of predecessors are cherished and lovingly preserved.
The Compozitor Publishing House • Saint-Petersburg is
• the staff of highly qualified professionals, including editors, setters, proof-readers;
• modern technologies, high criterions;
• exclusive rights for the publication of many composers in Petersburgian and all over Russia;
• branch store in St. Petersburg located in the Nevsky Prospekt;
• wholesale deliveries via Russia, communications with the far and near foreign countries;
• internet-site, getting orders;
• price-list, numbering more than 3000 titles.
The history of the Compozitor Publishing House • Saint-Petersburg founded in 1930, is inseparably connected with the history of the Soviet Union and Russia, so as with the history of the national music culture. Our predecessors and teachers managed to overcome tragic thirties, fatal forties, suffering of that ferocious struggle with formalism and cosmopolitanism and fortunately meeting the thaw…
1930 –1956 — Muzgiz
1956 – 1992 — All-Union publishing house “Sovietsky Kompozitor”
(with Moscow and Leningrad departments).
1992 — joint-stock company “Compozitor Publishing House•Saint-Petersburg”.
Many collaborators worked in the Compozitor Publishing House • Saint-Petersburg during the epoch of stagnation, greeted the perestroika, being true to their deal during hard nineties and managed to preserve this unique cultural centre, the traditions of which are nowadays cherished by most young people, having chosen the profession of music and books publishers.
However, all this long way was overcome by us together with the prominent composers, musicians, whose names are engraved in gold in the music history…
We are proud of collaboration with the inheritors of the great Russian composers of the 20th century: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Vladimir Shcherbachyov, Aram Hachaturyan, Alfred Schnittke, Valery Gavrilin...
The Soviet years were marked by our contacts with such wonderful composers from the neighbouring republics as Arvo Pärt and Velo Tormis (Estonia), Vitautas Barkauskas (Lithuania), Raimond Pauls (Latvia), Igor Luchenok (Byelorussia)…We try keep collaborating with the in spite of the borders between our countries, their compositions are still present with honour in our catalogue.
Among our partners is the St. Petersburg composers’ Union, the St. Petersburg State N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, Russian Institute of Arts’ History of the Russian scientific Academy, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music Art, the Bolshoy Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre, prominent performing groups — symphony orchestras, the paper “Muzykalnoye Obozreniye” (“Music Review”).
Foreign partners — New York City Ballet, USA; Het National Ballet, Holland; San Francisco Ballet, USA; Liepajas Simfoniskais Orkestris, Latvia; Orchestre Prométhée, France; American Symphony Orchestra, USA; United Nations Association International Choir, USA.