Lower Austrian folk song archive
The Lower Austrian Folk Song Archive in St. Pölten is a scientific archive with documents on the folk culture of Lower Austria and is the oldest and most extensive of its kind in Austria.
Emergence
The archive was created in 1905 as the Lower Austrian working committee of the project Das Volkslied in Österreich , it is the oldest and most extensive of its kind in Austria. The archive was founded by the collector and researcher Raimund Zoder (1882–1963). He built up a collection of songs, instrumentals, dances, fairy tales, legends and folk plays. Closed in 1938, it was reopened by Zoder in 1949. In 1993 the Lower Austrian Folk Song Works separated from the Vienna and Austrian Folk Song Works . It has been called the Lower Austrian Folk Song Archive since October 1999, and is now housed in the rooms of the Lower Austrian State Library in St. Pölten . The folk song archive is administered by Volkskultur Niederösterreich .
Tasks and holdings
The current activity includes the maintenance of the holdings of the Lower Austrian folk song archive, consisting of a specialist library, manuscript collection, bequests, leaflet collection, magazines, newspaper clippings, image and audio documents. In addition to acquisition and exchange of documents, the management of the archive also includes the EDP recording of the holdings using a database.
- 28,000 songs (handwritten)
- 20,000 instrumental pieces
- 1,000 folk dance records
- 6,000 photographs
- 4,000 books and magazines on the topics of song, music, dance and customs
- 2,000 recordings and field research recordings
literature
- Folk culture of Lower Austria : tradition in motion . Radinger Print, Atzenbrugg 2006, ISBN 3-901820-34-5