Cash injection for Webern complete edition

The historical-critical music edition contains not only the works Webern himself brought to print, but also their unpublished versions, compositions unpublished during his lifetime, youth and study compositions as well as fragments, sketches and arrangements.

The aim of the Anton Webern Complete Edition is to document the composer's biography and the history of the composition, publication and performance of his works as completely as possible. After being compiled by the Department of Musicology, the edition will be published in a print/online hybrid edition.

Following an evaluation of new and ongoing edition projects, the SNSF has selected 23 projects for funding in the 2017 to 2020 funding period. The possibilities of digital processing and publication are used for the indexing of the material. This means that the editions are free of charge and easily accessible in the spirit of open access, thus facilitating their use for further research.

The SNSF is also funding the critical edition of the works of the Basel cultural and art historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Bernoulli correspondence, an edition project "Der späte Nietzsche", the literary estate of Karl Barth, a critical Robert Walser edition and a project to catalog medieval and early modern manuscripts in Switzerland.