Cataloguing the music manuscripts of the Gotha Research Library
The main focus of the historically grown music collection at the Research Library is Thuringian music history. The collection contains writings on music theory (8,000 notes, including 1,400 handwritten) and original compositions written by the conductors of the court orchestra of Gotha in the 17th and 18th centuries. The collection also contains 130 manuscripts by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach of the widely extended Bach musical family in Bückeburg. The collection is catalogued in the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) and is made publicly accessible.
Material from the Gotha collection has the siglum D-Gol in RISM.
Project activities and results
Cataloguing of the music manuscripts
- Available in RISM with the siglum D-GOl
Publications
- Undine Wagner: Von der Musikerfamilie Bach bis zu Böhners Dreiherrnstein. Ein Streifzug durch die Notenhandschriften im Gothaer Schloss Friedenstein, in: Forum Musikbibliothek. Beiträge und Informationen aus der musikbibliothekarischen Praxis 33.2 (2012), pp. 23-29.
Project Information
Organization
Gotha Research Library
Project Management
Dr. Andrea Hartmann (Dresden)
Dr. Kathrin Paasch (Forschungsbibliothek Gotha)
Cornelia Hopf (ForschungsbibliothekGotha, until 10/2019)
PD Dr. Monika E. Müller (Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, from 11/2019)
Project Participants
Marina Schieke-Gordienko (Berlin)
Dr. Undine Wagner (Jena, Weimar)
Project Partners
- Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) über die Arbeitsstelle Dresden an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz und an der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt
- Thuringian Regional music archive Weimar
Duration
since 2005
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