Hugo Wolf Complete Edition
The Hugo Wolf Complete Edition is the scholarly and critical edition of all works by the composer Hugo Wolf (1860–1903), which has been published by Musikwissenschaftlichen Verlag Wien (MWV) .
Editor / Publishing Director
The Hugo Wolf Complete Edition is published by the International Hugo Wolf Society. Initially, Hans Jancik was in charge of the scientific edition . After his death, it was continued by Leopold Spitzer . After Herbert Vogg, Tilly Eder and Angela Pachovsky as the publishing director have been responsible for the complete edition of the Musikwissenschaftlichen Verlag Wien since 2001.
First prints during his lifetime and early critical editions
While Hugo Wolf was still alive, who was already in the Niederösterreichische Landesinsanstalt at that time, the Hugo Wolf Association Vienna began to systematically sift through the composer's estate in 1900 and to prepare what had not yet been published for publication. Most of the works had already appeared in print in 1905, with some massive interventions on the part of the editors. Other works, especially from his youth, were not even considered worthy of publication.
The Musikwissenschaftliche Verlag, founded in 1933 to publish a Bruckner Complete Edition, began planning a Wolf Complete Edition under its scientific edition manager Robert Haas, director of the music collection of the Austrian National Library. As a result, Penthesilea was presented in a critical edition, Scherzo and Finale as well as several youth songs were published for the first time. As a result of Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938, the MWV in Vienna was dissolved and the continuation of the Bruckner Complete Edition was transferred to Leipzig, which meant that efforts to create a Wolf Complete Edition were extinguished for the time being.
The Hugo Wolf Complete Edition 1956–1998
The International Hugo Wolf Society was founded in 1956 in order to promote the creation of a complete edition. The main concern should be the "publication and dissemination of the critical and scholarly complete edition of Hugo Wolf's works" in cooperation with the musicological publisher, which has meanwhile returned to Vienna. The musicologist Hans Jancik (1905–2001) became the editor of the Wolf Complete Edition. For Wolf's 100th birthday, the first volume was published in 1960, containing the string quartet in D minor, the Intermezzo in E flat major and the serenade for string quartet. After Leopold Spitzer took over the management from Jancik in 1991, he worked on the volumes that were still outstanding, including the opera Der Corregidor . He added the revision reports to reprints of earlier volumes. In 1998 the complete edition was completed with the volume of fragments for orchestra.
Chronology of the Hugo Wolf Complete Edition
- 1960 String Quartet in D minor / Intermezzo in E flat major for string quartet / Serenade for string quartet (Hans Jancik)
- 1963 poems by Eduard Mörike (Jancik; Leopold Spitzer with audit report 1994)
- 1965 Italian Serenade (Jancik)
- 1967 Spanish songbook (Jancik; Spitzer with revision report 1994)
- 1969 Postponed Songs II (Jancik)
- 1970 by Joseph von Eichendorff (Jancik; Spitzer with revision report 1993)
- 1971 Penthesilea (Jancik)
- 1972 Italian songbook (Jancik; Spitzer with revision report 1991, 1997)
- 1974 Small choirs (Jancik) / piano compositions (Jancik)
- 1975 Manuel Venegas (sharpener)
- 1976 Postponed Songs III (Jancik)
- 1978 poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Jancik; Spitzer with revision report 1996)
- 1979 Scherzo and Finale (Jancik)
- 1980 Postponed Songs I (Jancik)
- 1981 songs based on various poets (Jancik; Spitzer with revision report 2001, 2002)
- 1982 songs with orchestral accompaniment I (Jancik)
- 1983 songs with orchestral accompaniment II (Jancik)
- 1986 choirs with orchestral accompaniment (Jancik)
- 1987 Music for Ibsen's "The Festival on Solhaug" (Jancik)
- 1992 Fragments and Sketches I / II (Jancik - Isabella Sommer )
- 1994 Concerto for piano and violin op.6 (Spitzer with revision report)
- 1995 The Corregidor (Sharpener)
- 1997 piano compositions. Fragments (Spitzer with Rev. report)
- 1998 Leftover songs IV. Fragments / orchestral works. Fragments (Spitzer with Rev. report)
For all choral and orchestral works the musicological publishing house in Vienna also produced the performance material.