for the branch of musicology focusing on primary sources. Parts of the large collection of music manuscripts, which includes the world's finest assembly of autographs by the Bach family, Ludwig van Beethoven [...] goes far beyond conventional methods of documenting and registering material. In the analysis of manuscripts there will be an emphasis on "Style of lettering", "Watermarks" and "Origin of Autographs", aspects [...] fostering, with the help of the latest methods, the conditions in which work with the musical manuscripts on site takes place and improving the environment in which researchers in Berlin and further afield

catalogues and databases - StaBiKat for books, journals and sheet music, Kalliope for manuscripts and RISM for music manuscripts. Staff members make items available in the music reading room, give information [...] the world's most important music collections. The collection does not only include autographs and manuscript copies of composers, among them J. S. Bach , G. Ph. Telemann, W. A. Mozart , J. Haydn and L. van

Collections The collections of the music department currently comprise ca. 68,000 music autographs and manuscript copies about 480 literary estates 80,000 letters 8,000 pictures and portraits 500,000 music prints

Library Die Zauberflöte / The Magic Flute in the World Digital Library Beethoven Digital Digitised manuscript music Digitised printed music DataBase Information System (DBIS) musiconn (Portal des Fachinfo

recordings of the opera Fidelio and the Missa Solemnis. Only few people are aware that the original manuscript of the Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven has its home in the music department of the Staa