Edition of Schumann's works
A new joint research project of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities is working on the edition of Robert Schumann's works. It is set to run for a record-breaking 25 years, starting on April 1, 2023.
The plan is to produce 22 large-format volumes of sheet music with a total of over 6000 pages. In addition, there will be around 3000 handwritten pages and around 6000 printed pages of literary publications - as the basis for a digital edition of Schumann's poetic and literary oeuvre. The official title of the project is "Robert Schumann's Poetic World. Drama - Oratorio - Vocal Symphony - Literary Work. Historical-critical hybrid edition".
The researchers involved are pursuing an interdisciplinary approach between musicology, literary studies and the digital humanities. On an open access platform with the working title "Robert Schumann-digital", his journalistic works, the poetic works including the libretti and the "Critical Reports", including their genesis, are to be made accessible to the public. Schumann's compositions are to be published in purely analog form in classical music volumes.
For further information please contact: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Konrad, Chair of Musicology I,
T: +49 931 31-82828, ulrich.konrad@uni-wuerzburg.de
