Message #29704

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some interesting info I found on my other thread under Rare Scores about the Soviet Music Publishing House:

In 1918, the company (it was in regard to Jurgenson) was nationalized by the communist regime, as were all other music publishing companies, into a division of the State Publishing House. That same year, Boris Petrovich became the head of the musical division of the State Publishing House. The music division, in 1930, was renamed Gosudarstvennoye Muzykal'noe Izdatelstvo (Государственное музыкальное издательство) — translated as State Music Publishing House, referred to by its short name, Muzgiz, then, in 1964, referred to as Muzika (or Muzyka or Музыка, in Russian).

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1990 to 1991), state-owned enterprises — Muzyka included — suffered from newly imposed austere budgets. Muzyka lost its actual monopoly and its leading positions in several areas. As of 2006, Muzyka was owned by the Russian Federation, but the government was planning to privatize it that year. The strategic plan to resuscitate Muzyka was to focus on educational literature.

However, a little research on google indicates now that Edition Peters is now distributing P. Jurgenson / Muzyka (Russia)  scores....actually perhaps Jurgenson bought back the music scores that the Communists took away??