Gluck complete edition finalized
The complete edition of the works of the opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck has been completed more than seventy years after the first volume of 59 volumes.
According to the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, this edition presents the entire surviving oeuvre of the epoch-making composer, supplemented by a list of works and sources as well as a volume of letters and documents.
After the Gluck-Gesellschaft's first attempts to publish a critically validated edition of Gluck's works, Rudolf Gerber began preparatory work in 1943 on a new Gluck Complete Edition (GGA) based on comprehensive source research and collection. With the adoption of the GGA into the academy program in 1978 and the establishment of the project at the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, the financing of the long-term project was secured.
In addition to the research center in Mainz, the GGA has had another one at the Institute for Musicology at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2011. There has also been a Gluck research center in Austria since 1966, which is located in the Department of Art, Music and Dance Studies at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.
Link to the complete edition: www.gluck-gesamtausgabe.de
