All the knowledge of music online
The encyclopaedia "Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart" (MGG) will also be available as a database from 2017.
To this end, the publishers Bärenreiter and J.B. Metzler have agreed on a long-term collaboration with Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), the operator of the world's largest bibliographic database of musical literature, starting in 2014. The MGG Online will offer two things: the unchanged content of the print edition from 1994-2008 and, in addition, an updated version of the MGG Online updated version with corrections and revisions, including new articles where necessary. From 2017, the entire content of the famous music encyclopaedia will be available to users in a newly created database. Regular subsequent updates will ensure that subscribers to the MGG Online the music encyclopedia MGG as a reference work for music research in the future.
The publishers Bärenreiter and J.B. Metzler are still responsible for the contents of the MGG responsible. RILM is contributing its expertise to the development and creation of an online database, including comprehensive research tools. Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken (Zurich) has been appointed general editor. Together with the editorial team set up by the publishers and an international advisory board, he will oversee all updates to the MGG Online design the content.
The abbreviation MGG has stood for the reference work for half a century Music in the past and present. Founded by Friedrich Blume, who headed the first edition (published between 1949 and 1986), the second edition of the MGG edited by Ludwig Finscher. It was published between 1994 and 2008 and brings together all the essentials about music in 29 volumes and 25,000 pages. It contains around 20,000 articles written by over 3,500 authors from 55 countries.
