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Around 4 or 5 years ago a whole bunch of Shostakovich scores showed up on eBay. I managed to snag both full and PV scores of The Nose, among other goodies. I also got my 2-volume full score of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet from a different eBay seller. Unfortunately, eBay has been devoid of simila...

Especially the finale, the Hymn to a Great City (St. Petersburg). I dropped in the main music store in St. Petersburg itself last July and even THEY didn't have it! Someone has made an arrangement for wind orchestra and posted it to the web and the Library of Congress has a 2-piano reduction (with a...

It's a wonderful scan of a very rare score, for which we all thank you! I expect the publication date was closer to 1912 than 1920, since Jurgenson ceased to exist in Moscow in 1918. Definitely. The score I saw at the library of Congress had introductory notes on each movement, and before each move...