The Imperial Court Kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux (ca. 1660–1741) is considered the most important Austrian Baroque composer. His extensive oeuvre is currently being edited in a historical-critical edition at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH). In addition, performance materials of selected works are being made available as open access via the web portal www.fux-online.at. Two concerts in 2017 of sacred vocal music by Fux and instrumental music by his...

The CD focuses on a repertoire of Viennese song composition spanning four decades, which is rarely found in the programs of song recitals or recordings. Most of the pieces assembled here (except the songs of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert) are hardly known today. Some of them are supposed to have been presented to the public for the first time after more than 200 years in the archive. Composed in the Viennese period between Josephinism and the Congress of Vienna, German-language piano...

All of the music on this CD comes from fragments in Munich and Vienna newly reunited in the facsimile edition “A Veneto Liber cantus (c. 1440)” (Wiesbaden, 2012), edited by Margaret Bent and Robert Klugseder, which results from Klugseder’s discovery of four new leaves in the Austrian National Library, Vienna (Fragm. 661) and Bent’s recognition that they belonged to the same original manuscript as an existing set of fragments in the Bavarian State Library, Munich (Mus. ms 3224), eight leaves...

Schubert’s late compositions for piano duet were written during the years 1826 and 1828. They are mostly substantial and ambitious pieces with which Schubert aspired to become accepted as a composer also abroad. One of the most famous compositions is the Fantasia in F minor (D 940), of which an extensive draft has been preserved. It shows considerable deviations from the final version and has now been published for the first time in Compositions for Piano-Duets 3 of the New Schubert Edition....

Im November 2010 veranstaltete die Kommission für Musikforschung der ÖAW in Wien eine Konferenz mit dem Titel „Prozesse und Praktiken der Aneignung musikalischer Repertoires in Zentraleuropa, ca. 1420–1450“. Im Rahmen dieses international besetzten Symposions wurde ein auf die Gesamtthematik und einzelne Vorträge Bezug nehmendes Konzert organisiert, das in der Wiener Kirche Maria am Gestade stattfand. Die aufgeführten Stücke, die dieser Live-Mitschnitt präsentiert, erweisen die Vielfalt und...

Musikforschung befasst sich nicht nur theoretisch mit Musik, sondern auch mit der Umsetzung von Forschungsergebnissen in die musikalische Praxis, wie etwa bei Konzerten im Rahmen von Konferenzen, bei denen Musik und Wissenschaft in einen Dialog treten. Solche Aufführungen werden von der Kommission für Musikforschung (ÖAW) seit ihrer Gründung in regelmäßigen Abständen angeboten. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Veranstaltungen stehen vor allem Ur- und Erstaufführungen von bislang vernachlässigten Werken,...

This CD features the first complete recording of Franz Schubert's opera project Adrast (D. 137). Around the turn of the year 1819, Schubert composed 13 movements of a libretto by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer that was based on Herodotus' Histories. A new scholarly edition of the eight completed movements and the five drafts and draft fragments has only recently been made available in the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe. Its editor—musicologist and conductor Mario Aschauer—now presents the results of his...