Spiritual Music by P.I. Tchaikovsky in the Editions of P.I. Jurgenson: the Problem of Dating

P.I. Jurgenson was the only publisher of spiritual music by P.I. Tchaikovsky. Generally, those works were published immediately after creation (except for the spiritual hymn “The Angel Cried”, released in 1906, when neither the composer nor the founder of the publishing company were no longer alive). The thorough study of the available copies of the spiritual music by Tchaikovsky in the collections of the Library of the Moscow Conservatory allowed to presume that Jurgenson (and after 1903 his heirs) regularly republished those works, because the demand was apparently incredibly high. The presence of different kinds of printing details and identification of individual visual differences in those publications have led to certain adjustments in attribution of separate musical editions, appeared during the period of almost 40 years (from 1880 up to 1917). The developed method of more accurate dating, tested on the materials of spiritual music by Tchaikovsky, is applicable to any other work by this author and, more broadly, by any other composer, who printed his opuses at Jurgenson.

P.I. Tchaikovsky, P.I. Jurgenson, Spiritual Music, Edition, Dating, Output Data Area, Series Leaflet

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