Kомпозиторският архив като предмет на историческото музикознание
Composers’ Archives as a Subject of Historical Musicology

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the issue of collections of documents, scores, letters and so on, in composers’ archives (referring mainly to the personal archives of Dimitar Nenov, Dobri Hristov, Petko Staynov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) as a basic source material for shaping historical and scientific knowledge. The types of music manuscripts as well as the adopted research methods are broached. Specific research approaches and solutions relating to the specific work with composers’ archives are highlighted. The problems with the preservation of the integrity of such collections of papers are under consideration putting an accent on the scores autobiographical and epistolary material. Issues are dealt with relating to the identification of music manuscripts and in some cases, to the fragmentation of the extant papers, using as a basis the personal archive of Dimitar Nenov.

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