Library of the Handel House Foundation

Library of the Handel House Foundation
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founding	1948
Duration	26,731 (as of 2011)
Library type	Music library
place	Halle (Saale)
Visitor address	Kleine Marktstrasse 5
ISIL	DE-Ha101
operator	Handel House Foundation
management	Konstanze Musketa
Website	haendelhaus.de

The library of the Handel House Foundation is a special scientific library founded in 1948 in Halle (Saale) . It has the world's largest library collections on the baroque composer Georg Friedrich Handel . Further focal points of the collection are urban music history and instrument science . The head of the library is the musicologist Konstanze Musketa .

use

The library of the Handel House Foundation is a reference library due to the preciousness of the holdings . Accordingly, the library holdings cannot be borrowed . However, it is permitted to view or listen to these on site during opening hours and to take notes and, if necessary, copies.

The following technical services are available for this purpose: copier service, microform readers (microfilm and microfiche) and various devices for playing sound carriers ( record players , tape recorders , cassette recorders and CD players ). An electric piano can also be used on site. The building shares the reading room with the music library of the Halle city library and the music branch library of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt . Since 2001, all facilities have been located in Kleine Marktstrasse 5 in Handel Square, in the immediate vicinity of the Handel House.

The library initially worked with an alphabetical and a systematic card catalog . The former was arranged according to the rules for alphabetical cataloging RAK and the Prussian Instructions PI. The library now has a publicly accessible online catalog OPAC . The library was part of the BRISE library network until 2004 . Since November 2007 the holdings have been listed in the Association Catalog of Public Libraries ÖVK in the Joint Library Association GBV. The individual catalog was set up in February 2008. Active interlibrary loan and copy orders for magazines are also possible. The following peculiarities apply to the archival material: The library's bequests are recorded in the Central Database of the ZDN of the Federal Archives and autographs (text manuscripts and letters) can be researched in the Kalliope network .

Handel sheet music from the 18th century has been available online on the museum platform Museum-digital since February 2011 .

Duration

In 1937 the collection of literature began. From the 1960s to 1980s, the director of the Handel House, Konrad Sasse , looked after the library. He carried out systematic cataloging work and published collection catalogs. The oldest titles in the historical collection date from the 16th century. By the 1990s, this inventory grew to over 800 volumes in German, English, Latin, French and Italian.

The inventory includes u. a. large parts of the first Handel Complete Edition by the English composer Samuel Arnold , the entire edition of the German Handel Society by Friedrich Chrysander and important prints of the songs by Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Robert Franz . In addition, there are various source works on musical instrument making and historical performance practice . The funeral sermons in Halle and a cantional by Wolfgang Carl Briegel should also be mentioned .

The library also documents the work of numerous composers from Halle, especially from the 17th to 19th centuries such as Samuel Scheidt , Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow , Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , Daniel Gottlob Türk , Johann Friedrich Reichardt , Carl Loewe and Robert Franz .

In addition to books, music and sound carriers, archive materials are also collected in the music library . The following groups belong to the archibands:

Autograph collection, d. H. Music and text manuscripts

Estate collection (partial estates / estates: Friedrich Chrysander , Martin Frey , Carl Herforth , Herbert Koch , Gerd Ochs , Johannes Rockstroh , Friedrich-Wilhelm Schönherr , Walther Siegmund-Schultze , Hans Stieber , Anita Wendt , Eberhard Wenzel and Hans Jürgen Wenzel ; Vorlass : Thomas Buchholz )

Poster collection

Photo collection with paper prints, slides , negatives as well as digital photos and digital copies

Newspaper clippings collection (newspaper clippings, flyers, etc.)

Archive of the Association of Composers and Musicologists in the Halle-Magdeburg and Saxony-Anhalt districts

Files from the Handel House Foundation

Files of the international Georg Friedrich Handel Society

literature

Konstanze Musketa: The library of the Handel House in Halle. In: Forum music library. Contributions and information from music library practice. 2/1993, pp. 98-100.
Konstanze Musketa: The library of the Handel House in Halle. In: Bulletin of the libraries in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. 88/89 (1993), pp. 58-59.
Library of the Handel House in Halle. In: Treasures in Libraries in Saxony-Anhalt. (= Newsletter of the libraries in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt . Special issue 92). Compiled and edited by Karin Tietz and Rolf-Jürgen Wegener, Magdeburg 1994, pp. 28–33.
Stefan Rohde-Enslin, Jens Wehmann: The digital collection of early Handel sheet music prints of the Handel House Foundation and their internet presentation via the museum platform Museum-digital. In: Forum music library. Contributions and information from music library practice. 3/2011, pp. 240-247.

Web links

Website of the library of the Handel House Foundation
Entry from the library of the Handel House in the online edition of the manual of historical book collections

Individual evidence

^ City of Halle (Saale) - Department of Residential Affairs (Ed.): Special publication Culture in the mirror of statistics 2011 . Halle (Saale), undated, p. 39.

^ Jens Wehmann: Library of the Handel House in a new quarter. In: Handel in-house communications. 1/2002, p. 34f.

↑ End for BRISE library network. In: Handel in-house communications. 3/2003, p. 21.

↑ News for Public Libraries - 2007 , gbv.de, accessed on September 20, 2019.

↑ News for Public Libraries - 2008 , gbv.de, accessed on September 20, 2019.

[1] City of Halle (Saale) - Department of Residential Affairs (Ed.): Special publication Culture in the mirror of statistics 2011 . Halle (Saale), undated, p. 39.

[2] Jens Wehmann: Library of the Handel House in a new quarter. In: Handel in-house communications. 1/2002, p. 34f.

[3] End for BRISE library network. In: Handel in-house communications. 3/2003, p. 21.

[4] News for Public Libraries - 2007 , gbv.de, accessed on September 20, 2019.

[5] News for Public Libraries - 2008 , gbv.de, accessed on September 20, 2019.