St. Petersburg Union of Composers
The St. Petersburg Union of Composers, is a professional and creative musical association with its headquarters at the former mansion of the Princess Vera F. Gagarina at 45 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, St Petersburg, Russia. It is a Department of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation, formerly the Union of Soviet Composers.
History
The St. Petersburg Union of Composers was founded in 1932. Amongst its members in its first decade of existence were composers including B.V. Asafyev, V.M. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, A.P. Gladkovsky, V.M. Deshevovov, A.F. Pashchenko, Oles' Semyenovich Chishko, Y.A. Shaporin, D.D. Shostakovich, and young musicians B.A. Arapov, B.G. Holz, I.I. Dzerzhinsky, Y.V. Kochurov, V.V. Pushkov, G.N. Popov, V.P. Solovyev-Sedoy, M.I. Chulaki.Chairmen of the Union have been: the musicologist B.A. Fingert, as first chairman; V.V. Shcherbachev, I.O. Dunaevsky, D.D. Shostakovich, Chulaki, Solovyev-Sedoy, A.P. Petrov and Grigory Korchmar. In 2003 the Petersburg Department of the Union of Composers had more than 210 members.