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Serge Prokofiev Archive

Serge Prokofiev Archive


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 2217 Prokofiev

Held at: Serge Prokofiev Archive

Title: Serge Prokofiev Archive

Date(s): [1915-2001]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 40 box files, 6 boxes and 12 large boxes

Name of creator(s): The Serge Prokofiev Archive

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1983, Lina Prokofiev created the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, a British Charitable Trust, which in turn set up the Serge Prokofiev Archive in 1994. The Archive is funded and owned by the Serge Prokofiev Foundation and is housed at the Goldsmiths College, University of London. It is the only archival repository to be exclusively dedicated to Prokofiev studies, and has an active acquisition policy, with the view of regrouping all extant material and facilitating research by connecting all identified repositories of original sources.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The Serge Prokofiev Archive consists of copies of the private and business papers and correspondence of Serge Prokofiev, [1915]-1936; Lina and Oleg Prokofiev's private archives, consisting of personal and family correspondence, business papers, photos and press cuttings; scrapbooks and other material relating to Serge Prokofiev collated by Christopher Palmer; and pamphlets, articles, press cuttings and programme notes relating to performances of Prokofiev's work. Also housed in the Archive are a collection of literature on and around Prokofiev in a variety of languages, in particular English and Russian; Prokofiev's complete works in numerous editions; and a large collection of audio and video recordings. Copies of his original manuscript musical scores are held on microfilm and CDRom.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Russian, English, French, German, musical notation

System of arrangement:

Serge Prokofiev's correspondence is arranged chronologically. Much of the rest of the archival material is unsorted.

Conditions governing access:

By appointment only. Some private correspondence is closed to the public. Please contact the Curator for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the Curator.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

The archival material is unlisted.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Material created by Serge Prokofiev was deposited by Oleg Prokofiev in 1994 upon the creation of the archive; the papers of Lina and her son Oleg were deposited in various accessions from 1994 onwards. The Christopher Palmer material was given following his death in 1995.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

The originals of some of the material are deposited at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Further material relating to Prokofiev may be found at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) in Moscow; the Russian State Central Museum of Musical Culture (The Glinka Museum) in Moscow; and the Russian National Library in St Petersburg. Smaller collections are held by the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division, Washington D.C.; the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York; and the Department of Special Collections at Boston University.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2002


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