A center for Nikolaus Harnoncourt's estate
The Upper Austrian Anton Bruckner Private University and the Harnoncourt family have founded a center dedicated to Nikolaus Harnoncourt. It is intended to guarantee "that Nikolaus Harnoncourt's life and work continue to have an impact".
Nikolaus Harnoncourt's estate consists of audiovisual media, around fifty meters of sheet music and almost two cubic meters of correspondence, essays, notes on works and performance practice, lecture manuscripts and material relating to his many years of university teaching.
The estate has already been viewed and the organizational, content-related, legal, technical and economic issues regarding the digital archiving and archive use of the material have been evaluated. As a result of this preparatory work, the Nikolaus Harnoncourt Center will now be officially founded at the Anton Bruckner Private University.
The estate is to be scientifically processed and digitized at the center. It will also serve as a "cultural-philosophical think tank with events in St. Georgen". The budget of the Nikolaus Harnoncourt Center is made available to the Anton Bruckner Private University from funds provided by the province of Upper Austria and amounts to around 460,000 euros per year.
