Bruckner's complete works available online
Thanks to an Austrian Internet project, Anton Bruckner's complete works can now be viewed online and studied in detail thanks to numerous accompanying documents.
The website is an extensive Bruckner internet portal, which contains electronic documentation of manuscript sources as well as compositions, relevant persons and places. In addition, complete digital copies of all manuscripts, first editions and the Alte Gesamtausgabe are made available.
In the first stage of the project, all music manuscripts in Germany and abroad were documented. Currently, 740 signatures have been recorded in a database and most of them have also been philologically annotated. Synergies have resulted from the largely completed digitization of the Bruckner autographs and early copies by the music collection of the Austrian National Library (ÖNB). The ÖNB has made all manuscript digital copies available to the web project free of charge (around 19,000 individual images).
At the same time, around 7000 color images of sources in Austrian archives have been produced in high technical quality. The Upper Austrian Provincial Museum Linz, the Library of Congress Washington, the Library of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Vienna Library in City Hall have already made existing digital copies available.
