The history of the Compozitor Publishing House • Saint-Petersburg began in 1930th, and it is always was intertwined with the history of the Soviet Union and Russia and of its national music culture. Our predecessors and teachers managed to live through tragic thirties, disastrous forties, suffering of all those ferocious struggling first with the ‘formalism’, then with the ‘cosmopolitanism’ to meet at last the long awaited ‘thaw’…
1930 –1956 — Muzgiz
1956 – 1992 — All-Union publishing house “Sovietsky Kompozitor” (with branches in Moscow and Leningrad).
1992 to the present— joint-stock company Publishing house “Compozitor St. Petersburg”.
Many staff members of our Compozitor Publishing House • Saint-Petersburg worked through the epoch of ‘stagnation’, greeted the ‘perestroika’, sticking to their ideals during hard nineties and managed to preserve this unique culture, the traditions of publishing that nowadays are cherished by the youngest members of our staff, who chose the profession of engraver or editor.
We are proud of our cooperation with the heirs of the great Russian composers of the 20th century: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Vladimir Shcherbachyov, Aram Hachaturyan, Alfred Schnittke, Leonid Desyatnikov, Alexander Knaifel, Valery Gavrilin and other great composers.
During the Soviet period we had a wonderful possibility to work together with such prominent composers from the neighbouring republics as Arvo Pärt and Velo Tormis (Estonia), Vitautas Barkauskas (Lithuania), Raimond Pauls (Latvia), Igor Luchenok (Byelorussia)…We try to keep in touch with them despite all the borders between our countries, many of their compositions are still honour our catalogue.
Among our partners there are:
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the St. Petersburg Composers’ Union,
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the St. Petersburg State N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire,
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Russian Institute of the History of Art of the Russian Academy of Science,
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St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music,
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the Mariinsky Theatre
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the Bolshoy Theatre
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other prominent performing groups and symphonic orchestras,
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the newspaper “Muzykalnoye Obozreniye” (“Music Review”).
We cooperate often with our foreign partners — New York City Ballet (USA), National Ballet of Canada, 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), Uni Agency (Japan), China People’s Publishing house (China), Baerenreiter Prague (Сzech), PWM (Poland), Barry Editorial (Argentina), etc. This list is far from full and any person or organization ready for the mutually beneficial cooperation can join it.