Franz Schubert's Works: Complete and Authoritative Edition (), also known as the Collected Edition, is a late 19th-century publication of
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
's compositions.
[Deutsch 1951, p. xiii] The publication is also known as the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe ("the former complete edition"), abbreviated as AGA, for instance in the 1978 edition of the
Deutsch catalogue,
[Deutsch 1978, p. XXI](_blank)
/ref> in order to distinguish it from the New Schubert Edition
Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works (), commonly known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), or, in (NSA), is a complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, which started in 1956 and is scheduled to conclude in 2027. .
Publication
The twenty-two series (some in several volumes) were published from 1884 to 1897 by Breitkopf & Härtel
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Overview
The catalogue contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works ...
. Eusebius Mandyczewski was one of the main editors. From 1965 Dover Publications
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started to reprint this edition, and later it was made available at the IMSLP
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public domain, public-domain sheet music, music scores. The project use ...
website.
Content
I. Symphonien (Nos. 1-8)
Editor: Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period (music), Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, oft ...
. Issued 1884. Two volumes (Symphonies 1–3; Symphonies 4–6/8–9). Reprinted: Dover Publications, 1978.
II. Overtüren und Andere Orchesterwerke
Editor: Johann Nepomuk Fuchs. Issued 1886. Partially reprinted (Nos.1-7) as ''Overtures "In the Italian style" and Other Works'' by Dover Publications, 2002.
III. Oktette (Nos. 1-3)
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski, Issued 1889.
IV. Streichquintett
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski. Issued 1889.
V. Streichquartette (Nos. 1-15)
Editors: Joseph Hellmesberger, Eusebius Mandyczewski. Issued 1890.
VI. Trio für Streichinstrumente
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski, 1892.
VII. Trios, Quartets and Quintets with Piano
Editor: Ignaz Brüll, 1886. Two volumes.
VIII. Pianoforte und Ein Instrument, Partitur und Stimmen
Editor: Ignaz Brüll, 1886.
IX. Pianoforte zu vier Händen (F.S. 61-92)
Editor: Anton Door, 1888. Three volumes.
X. Sonaten für Pianoforte
Editor: Julius Epstein. Issued 1888
XI. Fantasie, Impromptus und andere Stücke für Pianoforte (Nos. 1-16)
Editor: Julius Epstein, 1
888.
XII. Tänze für Pianoforte (Nos. 1-31)
Editor: Julius Epstein, 1889.
XIII. Messen (Nos. 1-7)
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski, 1887. Two volumes: Mass 1–4, and Mass 5–6 with the '' Deutsche Messe''.
XIV. Kleinere Kirchenmusikwerke (Nos. 1-22)
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski; Issued 1888.
XV. Dramatische Musik
Editor: Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, 1893. Seven volumes.
XVI. Werke für Männerchor (Nos. 1-46)
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski. Issued 1891.
XVII. Werke für gemischten Chor (Nos. 1-19)
Editors: Josef Gänsbacher, Eusebius Mandyczewski. Issued 1892.
XVIII. Werke für Drei und mehr Frauenstimmen mit Pianoforte-Begleitung (Nos. 1-6)
Editors: Josef Gänsbacher, Eusebius Mandyczewski, 1891.
XIX. Kleine Gesangswerke (Nos. 1-36)
Editors: Josef Gänsbacher, Eusebius Mandyczewski, 1892.
XX. Sämtliche einstimmige Lieder und Gesänge
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski, 1894–1895. Ten volumes.
XXI. Supplement: Instrumentalmusik; Gesangsmusik
Editor: Eusebius Mandyczewski, 349p., 1897.
*Volume 1–3: Instrumentalmusik.
*Volume 4: Gesangsmusik
XXII. Revisionsbericht
Twelve volumes.
References
Sources
* Otto Erich Deutsch
Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition pu ...
in collaboration with Donald R. Wakeling
''The Schubert Thematic Catalogue''.
W. W. Norton, 1951. Reprint by Dover Publications
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker. It primarily reissues books that are out of print from their original publishers. These are often, but not always, book ...
, 1995.
* Otto Erich Deutsch, with revisions by Werner Aderhold and others.
Franz Schubert, thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge
' (New Schubert Edition Series VIII Supplement, Volume 4). Kassel: Bärenreiter
Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it ...
, 1978. ISMN 9790006305148 —
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