Musicology projects

Various media phenomena are analysed in this research project regarding their audio-visuality.

Digital edition of the musical works of the Viennese court organist and composer Wenzel Raimund Birck

A collaborative edition project dedicated to the musical oeuvre of the composer Johannes Brahms.

The research project is devoted to the systematic analysis of Brahms reception in the Viennese press between 1862 and 1902.

The book series "Wiener Bruckner-Studien" was founded in 2009 and covers a broad range of topics. Thanks to the collaboration of foreign Bruckner scholars, nine volumes are currently available.

The Anton Bruckner Lexikon Online (ABLO) covers people, places, terms and all of Bruckner’s works in more than 1,000 entries.

The research project is devoted to complex cross-media combinations of music, text(s) and image(s) in sixteenth-century illuminated choirbooks produced for the Wittelsbach court in Munich.

Digitization, enrichment and automated transcription of 53 medieval and early modern chant manuscripts and modern rare chant prints of the Central Library of the Franciscans in Graz, as well as management and provision of image data via an IIIF interface and long-term archiving in ARCHE.

The research platform DEMOS offers a collection of source materials related to Austrian music history, strongly (yet not exclusively) dedicated to biographical data, and with a particular focus on musical life in Vienna in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. It consists of several sub-databases which have been made publicly available since 2013.

DRACMarkS analyses watermarks found in Franz Schubert's manuscripts with the aid of thermography, machine learning and signal processing and uses methods inspired by techniques found in fingerprint recognition to facilitate watermark comparison.

The project, funded by the City of Vienna, provides a critical edition of the Festa da camera by Carlo Arrigoni (1697-1744). The edition will be published in three languages - German, English and Italian.

The new edition of Johann Joseph Fux's works is a major contribution to Baroque music research.

The Benedictine Abbey of Göttweig has a rich collection of music manuscripts, printed music and libretti, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries; a part of the famous collection of Aloys Fuchs (1799–1859) was also inserted.

Music played an important role in the self-conception and representation of the Habsburg dynasty.

This project considers discourses on music at the pluricultural Slavonian and the Banat military frontiers between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire.

This project explores the dynamics of and relations between Hanslick’s aesthetic, critical, and scholarly writings during his tenure at "Neue Freie Presse."

Starting with the first musicological habilitation at the University of Vienna (Eduard Hanslick, 1856), the history of musicology as a university discipline is subject of this project.

Representations of music in the visual arts significantly contribute to a better understanding of music history. This applies both to the depiction of musical instruments and music-making within concrete performative contexts, as well as to issues of symbolic communication within unique cultural and socio-political contexts.

In cooperation with the University of Innsbruck, Institute of Musicology and the International Gustav Mahler Society a web presence with comprehensive information on life and work of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) – one of the most prominent figures of the so-called Viennese Modernity – is to be created.

This project aims to create a basis for an edition of letters by recording and indexing all of Gustav Mahler's letters that have so far appeared in print.

Capture and cataloguing of medieval music manuscripts in Austria

The Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna, founded in 1898, is not only one of the oldest musicological institutes in the world, but also one of the most renowned.

The project applied for here is intended to collect essential basic materials for a planned history of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna.

The Austrian Encyclopedia of Music (oeml) sees itself as a fundamental reference work for the music (history) of Austria in all its manifestations.

This research project aims to reveal the importance and originality of baroque poet Pietro Pariati (1665–1733) by making the complete edition of his sacred and profane texts for music accessible to the scientific community and to a wide public audience.

The CD series "Klingende Forschung" is a project between musicological research and musical practice. In cooperation with the Phonogrammarchiv, concerts organized by the Department of Musicology are recorded and documented, including a scientific booklet published by the OeAW.

A collaborative edition project dedicated to the musical oeuvre of the Viennese composer Franz Schubert.

St. Stephen’s Cathedral already is a spiritual centre in Vienna. In several project steps, gaps are now to be closed in order to be able to create an overall picture of the music at the Metropolitan and Cathedral Church of St. Stephen.