Anton Webern Collection
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
born December 3, 1883, in Vienna, Austria
died September 15, 1945, in Mittersill, Austria
Description
The Anton Webern Collection basically consists of the documents gathered together by the Webern scholar and collector Hans Moldenhauer in the years following the Second World War and incorporated in his extensive archive of source materials. It was acquired by the Paul Sacher Foundation in 1984, along with two smaller collections related to Hildegard Jone and Ernst Diez, likewise located in the Moldenhauer archives. Over the years the collection was augmented with further Webern manuscripts and letters, partly from the Moldenhauer archives and partly from other sources.
The collection contains sketches and/or fair copies for every Webern work with an opus number (opp. 1 to 31) as well as many manuscripts of unpublished or posthumously published compositions. It also contains many student exercises, fragmentary works and projects, letters, autobiographical notes, printed documentary material, and parts of Webern’s personal library. Especially important are the last five of six sketchbooks documenting his complete creative output from the final twenty years of his life. Also housed in the collection are sources that shed light on Moldenhauer’s founding of the International Webern Society and the research he conducted for his Webern biography.
This collection represents the world’s largest body of sources on Webern’s creative output. Together with the Webern manuscripts preserved in other archives and private collections, it is currently being analyzed and evaluated for the complete scholarly edition of Webern’s music, prepared by the Musicological Seminar of Basel University.
Scope of holdings
- Music manuscripts: ca. 3000 pages of sketches, drafts, and fair copies
- Printed scores: ca. 140 proof sheets and personal copies
- Textual manuscripts: ca. 900 pages
- Correspondence: ca. 2100 pages
- Programmes / reviews: 1 archival box
- Photographs: ca. 130
- Library: ca. 240 volumes
Period
ca. 1899–1945 / 1960–1970
Chronology
- 1984 Collection enters the PSS holdings
Inventories
- Sammlung Anton Webern: Musikmanuskripte, Inventories of the Paul Sacher Foundation, vol. 4, 2nd edition (Winterthur: Amadeus, 1994) – OUTDATED / WITHDRAWN
- Anton Webern Collection: Music manuscripts (29 June 2018) – PDF online
- Internal inventories
Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation
- Thomas Ahrend, «Heftige Bewegungen der Seele, die doch sehr leise sind». Zum Bearbeitungsprozess von Anton Weberns Rilke-Liedern op. 8
in: Re-Set. Rückgriffe und Fortschreibungen in der Musik seit 1900, ed. Simon Obert and Heidy Zimmermann, Mainz: Schott, 2018, pp. 102–10 - Anton Webern, Briefe an Heinrich Jalowetz, Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation, vol. 7, ed. Ernst Lichtenhahn, Schott: Mainz, 1999
- Anton Webern, Über musikalische Formen. Aus den Vortragsmitschriften von Ludwig Zenk, Siegfried Oehlgiesser, Rudolf Schopf und Erna Apostel, Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation, vol. 8, ed. Neil Boynton, Mainz: Schott, 2002
- Anne C. Shreffler, Traces Left Behind: Webern’s Musical Nachlass and Compositional Process
in: Settling New Scores: Music Manuscripts from the Paul Sacher Foundation, ed. Felix Meyer, Mainz: Schott, 1998, pp. 103–06 - Felix Meyer, Anton Webern: Variations for Orchestra, op. 30
in: Settling New Scores: Music Manuscripts from the Paul Sacher Foundation, ed. Felix Meyer, Mainz: Schott 1998, pp. 109–14 - Felix Meyer, «O sanftes Glühn der Berge». Ein verworfenes «Stück mit Gesang» von Anton Webern
in: Quellenstudien II. Zwölf Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts, Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation, vol. 3, ed. Felix Meyer, Winterthur: Amadeus, 1993, pp. 11–38 - Felix Meyer, Im Zeichen der Reduktion. Quellenkritische und analytische Bemerkungen zu Anton Weberns Rilke-Liedern op. 8
in: Quellenstudien I. Gustav Mahler, Igor Strawinsky, Anton Webern, Frank Martin, Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation, vol. 3, ed. Hans Oesch, Winterthur: Amadeus, 1991, pp. 53–100 - Hans Oesch, Webern und das SATOR-Palindrom
in: Quellenstudien I. Gustav Mahler, Igor Strawinsky, Anton Webern, Frank Martin, Publications of the Paul Sacher Foundation, vol. 3, ed. Hans Oesch, Winterthur: Amadeus, 1991, pp. 100–56
Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung
- no. 29, 2016: Yuta Asai, Vom Akkord zur Polyphonie: Zum Kompositionsprozess von Anton Weberns "Das Kreuz, das mußt’ er tragen" op. 15/1
- no. 28, 2015: Simon Obert, "… die Konsequenzen ziehe ich …": Ein neu aufgefundener Brief von Schönberg an Webern
- no. 14, 2001: Felix Wörner, "... mit dem 3. das Stück flott hinausschmeißen": Zu Anton Weberns Korrekturen im 3. Satz seines Konzertes op. 24
- no. 12, 1999: Matthew R. Shaftel, Webern, Schoenberg, and the Original Version of "Himmelfahrt"
- no. 11, 1998: Dominik Schweiger, Weberns verworfene Mikrotöne
- no. 11, 1998: Jean-Louis Leleu, Le choix des registres dans le deuxième mouvement des Variations pour piano op. 27 de Webern: Ce que disent les esquisses
- no. 9, 1996: Christopher Hailey, Webern’s Letters to David Josef Bach
- no. 5, 1992: Juri N. Cholopow, Über Weberns Begriffssystem der Formenlehre
- no. 5, 1992: Martin Hoyer, Neues zu Anton Weberns frühen Liedern
- no. 5, 1992: Lauriejean Reinhardt, Webern’s Literary Encounter with Hildegard Jone
- no. 4, 1991: Graham Phipps, Harmonic Thought in Webern's Sketches
- no. 4, 1991: Robert W. Wason, Remnants of Tonality in Webern’s Op. 3/2
- no. 4, 1991: Anne C. Shreffler, A New Trakl Fragment by Webern: Some Notes on "Klage"
- no. 4, 1991: Gareth Cox, Einige quellenkritische Bemerkungen zu Weberns Satz für Klavier (M. 112)
- no. 3, 1990: Susanne Rode, "Schweigt auch die Welt, aus Farben ist sie immer …": Ganz kleine Sachen zu Anton Webern und Hildegard Jone
- no. 3, 1990: Shinichiro Okabe, Anton Webern: Sketches
External links
Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe AWG
Editor: Universal Edition
Update
2 February 2023