The project pursues the development of an Optical Music Recognition (OMR) infrastructure for late medieval manuscripts and early modern printed choir books.

Socio-economic analysis of a prototypical medieval monastery by using digital methods.

The project uses language models to unlock and enhance historical Viennese financial records from the early modern period.

The Benedictine Abbey of Göttweig boasts a rich collection of music manuscripts, printed music, and libretti, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, including a significant portion of the renowned collection of Aloys Fuchs (1799–1859).

The research project focuses on the complex cross-media interactions between music, text(s), and images in the Penitential Psalms created for the sixteenth-century Wittelsbach court in Munich. As part of an integrated digital research environment, we will provide…

Research platform, including a database of Franz Schubert's autograph musical sources.

The project is dedicated to Schubert’s autographs from the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. The watermarks appearing in the manuscripts will be made accessible by means of the innovative method of thermography.

The project investigates the fate of Schubert autographs in the first half of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the collection of the music publisher August Cranz, who acquired the extensive music archive of the Viennese Schubert publisher Anton…

The focus of Bruckner research at the ÖAW is on documentation, publications and the occasional organization of workshops and conferences. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the area of ​​digital humanities.

This project explores Brahms’s final principal copyist, whose recently discovered correspondence and manuscripts reveal his importance in Vienna’s musical life and the early history of the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (Monuments of Music in Austria).

In collaboration with the University of Innsbruck (Institute of Musicology) and the International Gustav Mahler Society, this project will create a comprehensive web platform dedicated to the life and work of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), one of the most prominent…

A Film Documentary on a Cultural Heritage of the Republic

The research platform DEMOS provides a collection of source materials related to Austrian music history, with a strong (yet not exclusive) emphasis on biographical data and a particular focus on musical life in Vienna in the nineteenth and the first half of the…

Building on the former iconographic archive at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Innsbruck (acquired in 2018), the project contributes to a visual history of music in the regions of Austria and Central Europe. Furthermore, it will enhance the online…

The CD series “Klingende Forschung” is a project situated between musicological research and musical practice. In collaboration with the Phonogrammarchiv, the Department of Musicology records and documents concerts, complemented by a scholarly booklet published by…