In addition to two music encyclopaedias, this research area includes projects that focus on analysing and interpreting sources in larger music-historical contexts, including a satellite project for the New Schubert Edition.

  • Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon – oeml online (long-term research project): Further expansion aims at continually working on new articles (around 100 per year, with a particular focus on women and migrants). In addition, the enrichment with new artwork and photographic material will be a central task of the editorial work, resulting in synergies with the project Images of Music for Austrian Music History. The future scholarly direction will be advised by an advisory board to be set up until 2026, at the latest. 
  • Anton Bruckner online encyclopaedia – ABLO: The encyclopaedia, which was essentially completed at the beginning of 2022, will be updated selectively.
  • Anton Bruckner research: In addition to ABLO and the new catalog raisonné, a symposium on occasion of Bruckner’s 200th birthday as well as the subsequent publication of the proceedings will be prepared.
  • Music and musical life at the Metropolitan and Cathedral Church of Saint Stephen in Vienna: A digital and analogue edition of various sources (in particular the Protocollum Curiae Episcopalis and the Codex Testarello) is planned and already in progress, as well as, in cooperation with the University of Vienna, the St. Stephen's Metropolitan and Cathedral Archives and the Cathedral Music Department, with the aim of recovering old repertoire for contemporary musical practice.
  • Music at the courts of the house of Habsburg: The focus is on revising the monograph Mit Leier und Schwert. Die Habsburger und die Musik (1st edition, 2001, out of print) on the one hand, research on the manifold relationships between the court and St Stephen’s Cathedral on the other.
  • Discourses on music at the margins of the Habsburg monarchy (c. 1750–1914): Based on the analysis of music-related writings in German, Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian and Romanian, the project reconstructs discourses of the emerging discipline of musicology and (pre-)national music historiographies. In addition, the pluricultural musical life along the military border between Austria(-Hungary) and the Ottoman Empire will be analyzed; hence it contributes to the OeAW research focus Imperien und Weltordnungen (empires and world orders).
  • History of early musicology: institutions, networks, topics, methods: After research on Guido Adler as an important representative of (historical) musicology, the current focus is on the development of the sociology of music in Austria during the interwar period. In particular, the early works of Kurt Blaukopf are taken into account, but also the music statistical studies of Paul Lazarsfeld, Ernst Krenek, and the almost unknown Leo Wilzin.
  • Franz Schubert: popularity, mediality, regionality: The project aims at the media construction of Franz Schubert’s ‘imago', including a comprehensive filmography as well as studies of the composer's imagery. Furthermore publications on Das Dreimäderlhaus and on the dramaturgy of Schubert biopics are planned.