Bavarian State Library continues Schott project
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is continuing the cataloguing, digitization and online presentation of the historical archive of the music publisher B. Schott's Söhne. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is supporting this second project phase with further funding of around 1.2 million euros.
Following the renewed funding approval from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the years 2022 to 2025, the project "Indexing, digitization and online presentation of the Historical Archive of Musikverlag Schott", which has been funded by the DFG since 2017, can be continued. The aim is to catalog the business correspondence from the business archive, the production archive with music manuscripts and printed music as well as the complete cataloging of the old Schott archive, which mainly contains unpublished musical works.
The digitization of music manuscripts and printed music from the production archive is being continued. The extensive contents of the Schott archive and their complex structure are thus digitally visible, searchable and scientifically analyzable in the international online union catalog for historical music manuscripts and printed music (RISM), the online catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek as well as in the Schott-Archiv portal.
