Franz Liszt digital

Franz Liszt playing the piano, lithograph from an unkown artist, after a drawing from Hubert von Herkomer, around 1900 | © repropool.de - German Research Foundation funds long-term project to establish a catalogue of sources and works by the composer A long-term project under the leadership of Christiane Wiesenfeldt from Heidelberg University's Department of Musicology aims to compile a digital catalogue of all sources and works by composer Franz Liszt (1811 to 1886) and make them freely available online. The Heidelberg musicologist underlines that this is meant to "fill a central gap in music research regarding the 19th century". Also involved are the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden and the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar. The German Research Foundation is funding the project "Digital Liszt Sources and Works Catalogue (LisztQWV)" for a maximum of twelve years. The first, three-year project phase has now been approved, with funding totalling approximately 1.2 million euros. The digital Liszt portal will be jointly developed at three project locations - Heidelberg, Dresden and Weimar. Through this collaboration, the composer's works and their versions are to be made visible and available to research.