Ancient mythology provided court poets and librettists with a rich reservoir from which to constantly restage the legitimization of power and authority, especially in Baroque opera.

Building on previous research projects into opera and sacred music at the Bonn Electoral Court as a center of musical excellence, this book project proposes both to reconstruct Beethoven’s musical and intellectual milieu and to re-evaluate his early creativity.

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

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

A thorough revision of the printed catalog of works on the platform www.bruckner-online.at.

The main goal of the project is to compile a complete list of Bruckner copyists on the basis of the approximately 700 manuscript sources that have been indexed so far.

For centuries, the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg, along with its suffragan dioceses of Brixen, Freising, Regensburg, and Salzburg, played a key role in the cultural history of Austria and Bavaria. Therefore, it is crucial to digitally preserve and analyze the…

Centerpiece of the research project is MS 2129 of the music collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna: a lavishly decorated choirbook produced by Richard of Genoa, singer and scribe of the Wittelsbach music chapel in Munich, for the 1568 wedding of…

The project aims to explore the extent to which XML-based methods can be beneficially employed in musicology, on the example of an automated analysis of harmonic structures. This will be conducted through the analysis of Anton Bruckner’s composition studies in the…

In the not too distant future, digital forms of archiving and editing musical notation will increasingly replace traditional printed publication formats. The Music Encoding Initiative’s XML-based encoding process has by now become the standard in this area.

This interdisciplinary project uses thermography, machine learning, and signal processing to create digitized watermarks for databases and manuscript descriptions. It develops new methods of digitally recording, identifying, and categorizing watermarks. All…

The film music for Der Engel mit der Posaune (The Angel with the Trumpet, 1948), composed by Willy Schmidt-Gentner, exemplifies the post-war period’s guiding aesthetic, which sought legitimacy from the “classical” past through allusions to Beethoven and Schubert.

The composer’s lesser-known film music is particularly intriguing in the context of Austria’s economic ‘miracle years,’ as it reveals patterns of avant-garde influences within the profit-orientated landscape of commercial cinema. As a sub-project, an annotated…

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…

The project series aims at critically analyzing the eclectic intellectual background of Eduard Hanslick’s aesthetic treatise “On the Musically Beautiful,” the genetic factors of which are made transparent from an overarching perspective.

The project explores the concurrent establishing of musicology and art history as academic disciplines at the University of Vienna as part of an education reform conducted by Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein (1811–1888).

The music archives of the monasteries of Melk, Göttweig, and Klosterneuburg house almost 20,000 musical sources. This project focuses on cataloging and indexing these collections.

Conradin Kreutzer served as Kapellmeister of the Vienna Court Opera for many years and briefly as composer and conductor at the Theater in der Josefstadt. Approx. 500 letters from the first half of the nineteenth century have been preserved.

This project seeks to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive edition of Gustav Mahler’s letters by cataloging and indexing all of his correspondence that has been published to date.

The project involves cataloging and analyzing all sources with musical notation found in the manuscript and old print collections, as well as the music collection of the Austrian National Library.

This project, influenced by the “spatial turn” in cultural studies, focuses on four historical intersections and their impact on music and its cultivation: the decades around 1430; the transition of power from Charles VI to Maria Theresa (1740); the repercussions…

The project aims to provide a long-overdue cultural-historical contribution to the significance of music in medicine and psychiatric institutions in Vienna at the end of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries.

This project seeks to provide as complete an account as possible of the festivals, celebrations, and concerts during the months of the Congress of Vienna, and to address the messages conveyed by music and surrounding festivities in such a politically charged…

The study of music composed in the context of the First World War represents a field that has been largely overlooked in the scholarly exploration of the “primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century.”

Spitz an der Donau is one of the most significant rural parishes in Lower Austria with a centuries-old musical tradition. The church music of Spitz gained transregional importance at the end of the eighteenth and in the nineteenth centuries. The historical music…

The project examines various forms of musical representation and associated discourses and constructions (including those of identity and memory) within their historical, social, and topographical contexts. The focus is on music and musical life in Austria, with…

Founded in 1898, the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna is both one of the oldest and most esteemed musicological institutes globally. The project seeks to gather materials to create a comprehensive foundation of sources for a planned history of…

The database project catalogs musical manuscripts and prints, focusing on materials primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within a region pivotal to Central European music history, to be integrated into the Répertoire International des Sources…

The correspondence within Schubert’s close circles of friends comprises private letters exchanged between 1806 and 1830.

Anton Webern, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, was born in Vienna, studied musicology at the University of Vienna and spent most of his life in the area around the city.

Whereas the depiction of Vienna in feature films has already been extensively researched from a scholarly perspective, a similar analysis of the city’s portrayal in cultural films remains to be undertaken.

Wien-Film occupied a special position in the Third Reich’s film industry, known for its productions that were predominantly sentimental and melodramatic in nature.