Mozart Source Databank

Since 1954 the "Neue Mozart-Ausgabe" (NMA)* has maintained a hand-written and (more recently) typed catalogue of the musical and textual sources of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Unquestionably the world`s largest collection of data of its kind, the catalogue is in need of fundamental revision to reflect the latest state of research based on the continuing work of the NMA in particular, and Mozart scholarship in general. This goal can be most easily achieved by the implementation of a computer-supported data bank (program of choice: Access). The data recorded in the course of the proposed project, be it with respect to autographs, manuscript copies, first and early printed editions or libretti, will be drawn upon in simple or combined form to fulfill a variety of purposes, primary among them: (a) collaboration on the forthcoming new "Köchel" catalogue (edited by Neal Zaslaw and Cliff Eisen, assisted by NMA representative Ulrich Konrad), a licensed edition of the original publishing house of Breitkopf & Härtel, to be issued after the year 2000 as Series X/35/Part 1 of the NMA; (b) preparation of a comprehensive index ("Register") to the NMA (= Series X/35/Part 2), to be issued after the ultimate completion of the edition in the year 2006 (namely, no earlier and no later than this year); and (c) to assist musicians, scholars and the public at large to access information concerning the musical and textual sources of Mozart, either during a visit to the offices of the NMA or via Internet and CD-ROM. It remains to be stated, that after completion of the edition in 2006 the offices of the NMA will be converted into an international centre for Mozart research (the NMA moves into its new quarters in May 1998), yet even as early as the fall of 1998 the source archives and data bank of the NMA will be made publicly accessible, the data bank itself by that time being coupled with the existing data banks of the other three research divisions of the "Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum": the Bibliotheca Mozartiana, the Mozart Archive and the Mozart Audio-Visual Museum. * The NEUE MOZART-AUSGABE is a scholarly, complete edition of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, that also aims to serve musical practice (130 volumes are planned, 123 volumes and 65 critical reports have been issued to date). The NMA is published by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum and receives financial support from: the municipalities of Augsburg, Salzburg and Vienna; Salzburg Province; the Conference of the German Academies of Sciences, represented by the Academy of Sciences and Literatur in Mainz, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Art; the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport in Vienna; and private sponsors.