モーツァルトの楽譜や曲を大英博物館がネットで公開

モーツァルトの楽譜や曲を大英博物館がネットで公開
2006年 01月 13日 金曜日 19:38 JST

　［ロンドン　１２日　ロイター］　モーツァルト直筆の楽譜が１２日からインターネット上で公開されている。楽譜の実物写真が見られるほか、演奏されることの少ない作品などは、最初の数小節を聴くこともできるという。

　モーツァルトの全作品リストから選んだ楽譜３０ページ分と、７５曲のさわりの部分を、大英博物館がデジタルデータ化したもので、ウェブサイト上（www.bl.uk/turningthepages）で視聴できる。

　「フィガロの結婚」や「魔笛」といった有名作品のほか、今回初めて録音されたという珍しい曲も聴くことができるという。

Mozart's musical diary goes online
Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:40 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A musical diary by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart goes online on Thursday, allowing Internet users to browse handwritten pages from the composer's catalog and listen to the opening bars of rarely performed works.

The British Library in London has produced a digital version of 30 pages and 75 musical introductions from "Catalog of all my Works," which can be accessed on its Web site www.bl.uk/turningthepages.

The catalog includes many of Mozart's best-known works, including "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Magic Flute," but also contains a "Little March in D," which the library said had been recorded for the first time for the site.

The original volume, acquired by the British Library from the heirs of the writer Stefan Zweig in 1986, details 145 works written by Mozart from February 1784 until his death in December 1791.

On the left-hand side of each page, Mozart entered five compositions and added information including when each was completed, its instrumentation, who commissioned the work and who first performed it.

The right-hand side of the page features the opening bars of each work. Users of the site can click on each of Mozart's compositions and listen to the opening bars performed by the Royal College of Music.

British Library Music Curator Rupert Ridgewell said the catalog provided a "unique insight into the creative mind of a genius at the height of his powers."

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the maestro's birthday later this month, the library has also reunited two halves of a Mozart manuscript cut in half by his widow in 1835.

Constanze distributed ever-smaller portions of Mozart's manuscripts as a way of raising funds.