results will help the researchers to arrange the works with respect to chronology and geography and to study how they were created, received and handed down to later generations. This will nourish and fertilise [...] fertilise other areas of musicological research such as the history of performances given, the study of sources and notation, and also biography writing in particular and music historiography in general. 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 conduct their activities

Claudio Abbado Estate is available to users in the Music Reading Room of the Berlin State Library for study and research purposes. This includes the scores, the literature volumes, the recordings and the c [...] committed to preserve the estate as an entity wherever possible and to keep his legacy in a suitable place as well as to make the sources, which are free of copyright, accessible for research purposes. Preliminary