Schubert Archive on the Internet
The Austrian Academy of Sciences is making more than 1000 handwritten and printed sources on Franz Schubert's work available on the Internet. It is the world's largest digital Schubert collection.
The digitized manuscripts come from the Vienna City Hall Library, the Austrian National Library, the Norwegian National Library and the Berlin State Library. First and early prints were recently added from the music collection of the Austrian National Library. The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) is thus making central works by the famous Austrian composer accessible to researchers and music lovers all over the world via a joint portal on the web.
The database was created as part of a project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund and has been maintained since 2010 by the former Commission for Music Research, now the Musicology Department of the Institute for Art and Music History Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
At present, music autographs from the music collection as well as letters and life documents from the manuscript collection of the Vienna Library in City Hall, music autographs as well as first and early prints from the music collection of the Austrian National Library and music autographs from the music department of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the Norwegian National Library can be viewed. There are plans to expand the database in cooperation with other collections.
More info: www.schubert-online.at
