Hofmeister XIX
Research on 19th-century music is hampered by insufficient bibliographical control of printed music. However, the Leipzig publisher Hofmeister published monthly or bi-monthly reports (Monatsberichte) on music publications that permit datings of large numbers of prints after 1829 when the series began: these constitute the single largest inventory of music prints produced in the 19th century. The Monatsberichte are limited by the form in which they were set out and by the fact that no single run of the series exists anywhere in the world. Hofmeister XIX remedies both problems and makes the resource available on the internet.
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Project link
TaDiRAH
arts-humanities.net
Principal investigator
Professor Nicholas Cook
Principal project staff
Professor Nicholas Cook
Start date
Monday, September 1, 2003
Completion date
Sunday, April 1, 2007
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The resource is quite directly a rekeyed and tagged version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte from their inception in 1829 to the end of the nineteenth century. We began with microfilm assembled from a variety of sources by the International Association of Music Libraries Hofmeister Working Group, but there were quality problems which were resolved through use of images digitized by the Austrian National Library, principally from issues available within their own collection but supplemented from elsewhere as necessary.
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