Works by the composers of the Republic of Moldova in the Library of the Symphony Orchestra of the “S. Lunkevitch” National Philharmonic

Abstract

The author of this article is a participant in the project of the Academy of Music, Theatre, and Arts and describes the results of her work with musical materials in the library of the Symphony Orchestra of the “S. Lunkevitch” National Philharmonic. This Fund containing mainly manuscripts is estimated as a collection of orchestral music of national importance that reflects the compositional process in large-scale genres for more than 70 years. At present, the Fund comprises works by 77 Moldovan authors. There are genres of instrumental music for orchestra and solo instruments with orchestra (symphonic music), genres of vocal-instrumental music for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, for voice and orchestra (vocal-symphonic music), chamber-instrumental music, chamber-vocal music (romances, songs, cyclic solo-vocal compositions) as well as genres of stage music (operas, fragments of operas and ballets, music for plays and films), arrangements of folk songs and melodies. The result of processing the musical materials from the collection became a published catalog, its structure principles are explained in the article.