The complete edition of Arnold Schönberg’s musical works has the task, to make the compositional œuvre of this composer accessible to the general public. Therefore, not only the final version of the works is published within the framework of this edition but also the early version and revisions of the composer; not only the completed composition but also the fragments; not only the final texts of…
By linking two new, reciprocally interrelated research approaches – Genetic Text Criticism and the Digital Edition – the highly complex dynamics of compositional processes in Beethoven’s oeuvre, for the investigation of which source tradition and indexing provide ideal conditions, are to be explored, documented, and reproduced in exemplary digital editions in a new way.
The project “Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe, Historisch-kritische Ausgabe seiner Werke, Schriften und Briefe”, jointly sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, is the first musicological edition project for music after 1945.
The project, which was developed in close cooperation with the music archive of the…
The new Weber Complete Edition is based on the current status of musicological editing processes, with a clear focus on the historical aspect in addition to the critical aspect. It presents all of Weber’s musical works, including the piano excerpts from his own and foreign works as well as his arrangements of his own and foreign works, taking into account all available sources. Fragmentary…
The project is dedicated to the research and edition of the music-historically significant, editorially untapped stock of the monodic, ecclesial, and secular music of the European Middle Ages with Latin text. Until the end of the Middle Ages, the music of Europe was determined by Monophony. The permanent abandonment of Monophony and the new concept of the polyphonic compositions constitute the…
The "Erbe deutscher Musik" presents important works of German music history which are particularly characteristic of an epoch, a genre or a composer, in a critical and at the same time practical form. The project thus continues the tradition of German Denkmäler series. In 1953 the project, which was founded in 1933, was resumed. The volumes are published in a main series (with ten sections) and a…
The project „Erich Wolfgang Korngold Werkausgabe (EWK-WA)” jointly supported by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, is the third musicological edition project on a 20th century composer within the academy programme.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) represents the musical history of modernism in all its diversity, but also…
Over a period of 25 years, the „BACH Research Portal“ will for the first time index all the available archive sources on the entire Bach family of musicians in digital form and make them publicly accessible. This will be done using the latest digital humanities methods. This project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig is based at the Leipzig Bach Archive.
The project’s aim is to present Gluck’s complete works in a critical historical edition for science and musical practice. These include the notated music with its text-critical annotation and extensive information about the work history and the contemporary reception; likewise facsimiles of the textbooks are printed in the respective volume. Gluck’s oeuvre, rarely maintained in the autograph,…
The “Hallische Händel-Ausgabe” is a critical complete edition of Händel’s oevre based on all known sources. It is made for theoretical and practical use. The Editorial Board is put together internationally. Each volume contains an introduction that consists of the origin history, the works’ heritage, and a discussion of performance questions. In each edition of vocal works there is a German and,…
The Hand Dictionary of Musical Terminology (HmT) deals in detailed monographs with the origin and meaning of musical terms, by understanding their conceptual and History of meaning comprehensively processed and lexically presented. As a first attempt at all an encyclopedic documentation and reflection of the musical terminology in past and present, the HmT is conceived as a music terminological…
The “Neue Johannes Brahms Gesamtausgabe” brings forward Johannes Brahms’ compositional oeuvre in a historical-critical edition. Included are alternative versions, that remained unpublished by the composer, as well as adaptations by the composer of his own and external works. The goal of the edition is the reproduction of authentic texts, which are relieved from typing-, copying, and engraving…
The goal of the project is the publication of the first critical scientific complete edition of the works of Joseph Haydn. The edition, with its planned 108 volumes, comprises 32 series (two more are planned as supplements and registers). Within each series, the works will be arranged chronologically if possible. Furthermore, the Haydn-studies will be published, which, among other things, include…
The task and aim of this project is a critical edition of all melodies of German-language hymns from printed sources. The number of sources to be considered up to the year 1640 alone is - compared to editions of works by individual composers - uniquely extensive, with more than 2,400 printed sources. Due to this extraordinary abundance of material, it was impossible to publish the Critical Reports…
The Leipzig edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s works is intended to make all accessible compositions, letters and writings as well as all other documents of his artistic work available to the public in a scientifically appropriate form. As a historical-critical edition, it aims to serve research and musical practice in equal measure. The issue is published in 13 series. Approximately 80…
The Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi is a dictionary of the Latin musical language of the Middle Ages until the end of the 15th century. It opens up the extensive music theoretical literature of the Middle Ages, which forms a central source for understanding medieval culture and the development of our Western music. Supplementary studies and editions of medieval music treatises are presented in…
The aim of the project is a historical-critical new edition of all works by Johann Sebastian Bach. This will replace the old Bach-Gesamtausgabe from 1851-1900. The latter had proved to be in urgent need of revision, especially in its source-critical part, but also in its arbitrary selection of certain versions.
The New Bach Edition (NBA) is an urtext edition; it is intended to provide scholars…
From the very beginning, the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe has set itself the goal of serving both scholarship and practice. In this way it has gained a new and essential accent compared to the old Complete Edition, which was almost exclusively adapted to scholarly needs. Approximately 130 volumes are planned (the critical reports on the music volumes are usually published separately). The New Mozart…
The “Neue Schubert-Ausgabe” is a scholarly critical edition of all musical works of Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Its 84 volumes are classified in eight series according to groups of works and include a catalogue of works, documents concerning the biography, and catalogues of sources. Each volume lists the most important sources and interpretations, and is completed by a separate critical report.…
The aim of the internationally geared project is the critical edition of exemplary works of the European music theatre from Baroque to Modernism. Thus, for the first time an academy-project exclusively addresses the music theatre and its diverse manifestations. Published are the works from the French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and Slavic music theatre.