OPEN Edirom

OPEN Edirom is a pilot project carried out at the KreativInstitut.OWL in cooperation with the Center for Music - Edition - Media (ZenMEM) of the University of Paderborn, the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, and NFDI4Culture. A stable and reusable workflow for open data publication and presentation of complex music philological data is ...

Duration: 07/2023 - 08/2024

Funded by: MWIKE NRW, Bezirksregierung Detmold

Indexing and cataloguing the private library from the estate of Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Opernkomponisten der Gegenwart. Nach seinem Tod 2012 steht die Aufarbeitung seines Gesamtwerks erst am Anfang. Henzes Privatbibliothek aus seinem Besitz in La Leprara bei Marino südlich von Rom, in dem er fünfzig Jahre seines Lebens verbracht und dort seine wichtigsten Werke ...

Duration: 10/2022 - 06/2024

Funded by: Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Mariann Steegmann Foundation, Hans Werner Henze-Stiftung

Digital letter edition: Hans Werner Henze's network of artists

Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) is considered one of the most important contemporary German opera composers as well as “the most colourful figures in the history of musical art after the Second World War” (Petersen 1988). In autobiographical writings and interviews, in addition to the political-humanitarian and pedagogical dimensions of his works, he ...

Duration: 08/2021 - 07/2024

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Dr. Dennis Ried

Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe

The WeGA is a musicological edition project funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz) with the aim of presenting all of Weber's compositions, letters, diaries and writings in a historico-critical complete edition by the 200th anniversary of Weber's death in 2026. The edition is designed to consist of 54 printed volumes of music ...

Duration: 01/1993 - 12/2026

Funded by: AdW Mainz

Contact: Peter Stadler