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| | The Archive boasts the largest collection of published material on Prokofiev in the West. It includes some 500 scores, of which many first editions, over 300 books (the bulk in English and Russian, but also in French and German), a collection of periodicals, and a large, fast growing audiovisual collection.
The collection was built up over the years from a variety of sources among which publishers Boosey & Hawkes (London), Chant du Monde (Paris), Kompozitor (Moscow) and Peters (London) generously donated their catalogues at various stages. EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Philips/Decca and Chandos have substantially contributed to the CD collection, as well a numerous distributors and artists.
A great many individuals have contributed to this collection, principally the Prokofiev Estate, Christopher Palmer and Vladimir Blok. Christopher Palmer, a writer with wide-ranging interests, built up an extensive Prokofiev collection with a view to write a new Prokofiev biography. After his untimely death in 1995, his executor donated his collection to the Archive. Vladimir Blok, a Moscow-based composer, arranger, teacher and writer, who greatly admired Prokofiev's music, is best known in the West for his orchestration of the Concertino for cello and orchestra. After his death, his widow also donated his extensive library to the Serge Prokofiev Archive, thus considerably increasing the collection of books in Russian, most of which are out-of-print.
The collection is ever expanding and Prokofiev fans and scholars across the world are invited to donate materials (copies or originals), thus helping the Archive to fulfil its mission of providing reliable knowledge and free access to sources. | | 
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