Musicological publisher Vienna
The Musikwissenschaftliche Verlag Wien (MWV) was founded in 1933 with the aim of a scholarly and critical complete edition of Anton Bruckner's works . In addition to the previous and the new Anton Bruckner Complete Edition , the MWV also oversees the complete edition of Hugo Wolf's works and an extensive program of musicological literature.
Publishing management
The Musikwissenschaftliche Verlag Wien (MWV) has been a non-profit association since 1955. Its managing directors were initially Norbert Furreg (1933–38, 1946–67), Käthe Smetana (1967–71), Margarete Puhlmann (1972–79) and Herbert Vogg (1979–2001). With Leopold Nowak's withdrawal from the publication of the Bruckner Complete Edition, Vogg was also in charge of completing this project from 1989 onwards. From 2001, Tilly Eder as managing director and Angela Pachovsky as publishing director was responsible for the agendas, since 2019 Angela Pachovsky has been managing director of the publishing house.
Publishing program
The Bruckner editions
The Musikwissenschaftliche Verlag Wien (MWV) was founded in 1933 by the International Bruckner Society (IBG) specifically for the publication of an academic-critical complete edition of Anton Bruckner's works published by the Austrian National Library in Vienna and the IBG. Years of preparatory work by Robert Haas , director of the music collection of the Austrian National Library, preceded the establishment of the publishing house and the first publications of the Bruckner Complete Edition . Haas became scientific edition manager, his first colleague was Alfred Orel . In 1937 Leopold Nowak became co-editor. Numerous volumes were published during this time. When Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, the MWV and the IBG in Vienna were dissolved and the complete edition was continued by the Leipzig publisher Oscar Brandstetter . In 1945 the stocks there were destroyed in a bomb attack.
After the end of the Second World War, the IBG and the MWV were reactivated in Austria, which means that the Bruckner Complete Edition was brought back to Austria. Until 1989, Leopold Nowak edited almost the entire work of Bruckner as scientific director. After his resignation, the missing volumes could be published under the management of Herbert Vogg until 2001. Since 2001, further improvements have been made through corrections based on lists of printing errors by Rüdiger Bornhöft and the incorporation of new research results into reprints. In addition, previously outstanding audit reports have been added.
In 2011 the New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition began under the direction of Paul Hawkshaw, Thomas Leibnitz, Andreas Lindner, Angela Pachovsky and Thomas Röder. The new edition is based on the current state of research, contains uniform guidelines and is developed by an international team of editors. The first publication to appear in 2014 is the 1st Symphony in the Linz version, ed. by Thomas Röder.
The Hugo Wolf Complete Edition
The planning for a complete edition of Hugo Wolf's works was started under the editor Robert Haas , but the execution was initially delayed by the Second World War. To compile a complete edition of Hugo Wolf, the International Hugo Wolf Society was founded in 1956 with the aim of developing a critical and scholarly complete edition of Hugo Wolf's works, which was to be carried out in collaboration with the musicological publishing house who had returned to Vienna. The editor was the musicologist Hans Jancik (1905-2001). In 1991 Leopold Spitzer took over the management and worked on the volumes that were still missing, 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.
The book production
The publisher's book production was initially almost exclusively for Bruckner and Wolf: On Leopold Nowak's 80th birthday, his essays were published in 1936–1984 under the title “About Anton Bruckner.” The letters to and from Anton Bruckner were published by Andrea Harrandt in 2003 and 2009. A four-volume edition of Hugo Wolf's letters was published by Leopold Spitzer in 2010/11.
Rows
- Between 1985 and 1994 four volumes of the series "dramma per musica" edited by Richard Bletschacher with the subtitle "Contributions to the history, theory and criticism of music theater" were published
- "Anton Bruckner - Documents and Studies".
- includes Bruckner yearbooks, Bruckner symposium reports as well as Bruckner lectures and conference reports.
- "Anton Bruckner's Vienna Years", from 2009-
- Series of publications by the “Anton Bruckner” department at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Music Research. It offers a forum for Bruckner research.
literature
- Leopold Nowak: The Anton Bruckner Complete Edition. Their history and fates , in: Bruckner yearbook 1982/83 (MWV Vienna 1984)
- Herbert Vogg: A promise was kept , in: Bruckner yearbook 1997-2000 (MWV Vienna 2001) or studies and reports. IBG Bulletin No. 56 (2001)