Florian Bassani (ed.): Present and future of Fin-de-siècle composer archives. Contributions to the colloquium Locarno 2023, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2025, 360 pages, 17 x 24 cm, Deutsch | English | Italian | French, Hardcover
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Present and future of Fin-de-siècle composer archives
Contributions to the colloquium Locarno 2023
Today, the estates of composers from the turn of the last century in most cases enjoy institutional or government protection. Unlike a few decades ago, they are part of public libraries, specially created composer institutes, museums and archives, or they are maintained and enhanced by ‘composer societies’. In autumn 2023, those responsible for such and similar entities met in Locarno to discuss their status quo and, in particular, their future development. Names such as Reger and Busoni, Humperdinck and Lehár, Dvořák and Janáček, Franchetti and Leoncavallo, Saint-Saëns and Sibelius, Beach and Smyth, Zemlinsky and Schreker, Elgar and Delius, Le Beau and Weingartner, as well as Bartók and Szymanowski were all represented. This volume provides empirical values and strategies of long-standing archive officials for a targeted ‘launch’ of forgotten composers; it emphasises the benefits of a skilfully balanced public relations work and an adequate online presence, but also of top-class recordings and high-quality editions as effective instruments for publicising the archived music.
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Contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Indice dei contenuti
Sommaire
Present and future of Fin-de-siècle composer archives.
Contributions to the colloquium Locarno 2023
Introductory notes
Gegenwart und Zukunft von Komponisten-Archiven des
Fin de siècle. Beiträge zum Kolloquium Locarno 2023
Vorbemerkungen
Presente e futuro di archivi di compositori fin de siècle.
Contributi al colloquio di Locarno 2023
Note introduttive
Présent et avenir des archives de compositeurs fin de siècle.
Contributions au colloque de Locarno 2023
Notes d’introduction
Beharrlichkeit und Flexibilität – Komplementärstrategien
zur Entwicklung, Erhaltung und Wirksamkeit von
Komponisten-Archiven
Susanne Popp
A Museum, a Library and an Archive: Changing Perspectives on
Acquisition from the British Library, with a Focus on
Collections relating to Edward Elgar, Ethel Smyth and
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Christopher Scobie
Nachlässe von Komponisten des Fin de siècle in der
Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
Uta Schaumberg
Different materials – Diverse cataloguing: How can we present
composers’ collections and make them accessible in a
practicable way? (Illustrated by the example of the
Engelbert Humperdinck collection)
Ann Kersting-Meuleman
Bad Ischl und die Operette – Die Lehár-Villa
als Heimstatt wichtiger Archive
Maria Sams
Archival Work as a Basis for Historical Reconstruction
Using the Example of Robert Kahn (1865–1951)
and Artur Schnabel (1882–1951)
Werner Grünzweig
Komponist*innen-Nachlässe der Universitätsbibliothek Basel:
Sammlungsgeschichte und Erschließungspraxis am Beispiel der
Nachlässe Felix und Carmen Weingartner-Studer
Sara Janner, Jens Peter Lieberkind, Iris Lindenmann
Il fondo Alberto Franchetti della Biblioteca Panizzi
di Reggio Emilia come complesso documentario
in progress e specchio di un musicista cosmopolita
Roberto Marcuccio
Karol Szymanowski in the Collections of the University of
Warsaw Library – The Problem of the Dispersed Archives
of a ‘Homeless’ Composer
Magdalena Borowiec, Piotr Maculewicz
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924). Der Nachlass in der Staatsbibliothek
zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Herausforderungen und
Chancen der interdisziplinären Vernetzung
Marina Schieke-Gordienko
Un Centro studi dedicato al compositore e contrabbassista
Antonio Scontrino (Trapani 1850–Firenze 1922)
e al suo archivio diffuso
Federica Riva
Les Archives de Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921). Une valorisation
optimisée par des collaborations institutionnelles
Marie-Gabrielle Soret
Il patrimonio di Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Potenzialità, approcci, prospettive
Florian Bassani
Archiving the Fin-de-siècle for the Present and Future:
Alexander Zemlinsky and Amy Beach as Case Studies
in Collection Development, Access, and Preservation
Paul Sommerfeld
Briefe von berühmten Komponisten. Und mehr.
Zum Archivgut von Musikverlagen im Sächsischen
Staatsarchiv, Staatsarchiv Leipzig
Thekla Kluttig
The Budapest Bartók Archives, the Béla Bartók Complete
Critical Edition, and Indispensable Information
Hidden in the Composer’s Correspondence
László Vikárius
On the Sources of Jean Sibelius’s Complete Works
Timo Virtanen
Some British Victorian Composers, their Rehabilitation, and
the Uncovering of their Archives (Stainer, Parry, Stanford)
Jeremy Dibble
Franz Schreker and the Challenges of Revival
Christopher Hailey
Contributors to the conference
Mitwirkende an der Konferenz
Contributori alla conferenza
Contributeurs à la conférence
About the authors
Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren
Autori e autrici
A propos des auteures et auteurs
Library Sigla
Bibliothekssigel
Sigle delle biblioteche
Sigles des bibliothèques
Name index
Namensregister
Indice dei nomi
Index des noms
