Interview with Dr. Thomas Leibnitz about the Bruckner manuscripts of the Austrian National Library
In October 2014 the so-called Bruckner Archives of the Austrian National Library’s Department of Music comprising the entire works of Anton Bruckner was included along with 18 other Austrian documents and collections in the Austrian National Memory of the World Register, thus emphasizing its significance for Austrian cultural values.
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) himself laid the foundations for this collection by bequeathing the autographs of his main works in 1893 to the Imperial Library, predecessor of the Austrian National Library. In the following decades further music manuscripts (autographs and copies), sketches, biographical documents such as pocket diaries or letters together with a wide range of other Bruckner related documents were systematically acquired and form the world’s largest archive of Bruckner’s works today. Within Europeana Sounds, a substantial part of the Bruckner Archives will be made accessible via Europeana.
Sieh das Interview unter http://www.europeanasounds.eu/news/witnessing-the-creative-moment