University archive | Thuringian Regional Music Archive
The University Archive | Thuringian State Music Archive Weimar (HSA | ThLMA), with its valuable collections of files and sheet music, forms an important foundation for the academic study of music and cultural history in Central Germany.
Thuringia's musical treasure trove
The archive of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar was founded on 1 October 1995 as an interim and final archive. It emerged from the holdings of the university's administrative archive and the former Department of Folk Music Research and therefore contains extensive materials on the history of the university (administrative, personnel and student files, departmental files) and older scientific collections.
Since 2001, as the Thuringian Regional Music Archive under the supervision of the Chair of Historical Musicology, it has taken on the additional task of a collection centre for valuable historical music collections in Thuringia. Through a framework agreement concluded in 2002 with the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM), the HSA | ThLMA also supports the Thuringian parishes as an important co-operation partner in safeguarding and cataloguing their valuable music collections. Some particularly valuable collections have therefore already been transferred to the fully air-conditioned stacks on permanent loan.
Thuringia's rich music treasury contains music archives from almost eight centuries, including the historical music collection of the German National Theatre (18th-20th century), numerous adjuvant archives from Thuringian parishes (16th-19th century), the music collection of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (ADMV), many composers' estates, the Thuringian folk song archive, an ethnological instrument collection and an extensive sound archive.
As an information centre for Thuringian music history, it provides (sometimes rare) secondary literature and scientific collections of various kinds and, together with its cooperation partners, offers the institutional basis for effective networking of regional music history-oriented research initiatives.
The HSA | ThLMA is also home to an office of the International Encyclopaedia of Musical Sources (RISM). Music manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries from the archive's holdings and from other selected libraries and archives in Thuringia are catalogued here and can be accessed via the RISM internet database.
Restoration of J. N. Hummel’s Hammerflügel: A Joint Project of the FRANZ LISZT University of Music and the Hummel Society of Weimar
The restoration of the historic hammerflügel from 1829—built by the Viennese piano maker Friedrich Fuhrmann and once owned by Johann Nepomuk Hummel—which is in need of repair, is to be financed through donations and grants.
The goal is to have this valuable historical instrument restored by an experienced restorer by the 250th anniversary of Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s birth in 2028 at the latest. The grand piano is to be played again on the occasion of Hummel’s anniversary on November 14, 2028.
Donations to the Hummel Society of Weimar, made to the Sparkasse Mittelthüringen account (IBAN: DE19 8205 1000 0163 1653 35 – BIC: HELADE1WEM) with the reference “Hummel Hammerflügel,” are tax-deductible.
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An overview of the holdings can also be found on the Thuringia Archive Portal.
Final and administrative archive
(1872-2005 ff), contains, among other things, student and personnel files (1907 ff) as well as archival material from the university's record-keeping offices.
Clubs and societies
Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein, ADMV (Musikarchiv, 1859-1937),
Arbeiterkultur und -sängerbewegung (1915-1960),
Folklorezentrum Gera (20. Jh.),
Folklorezentrum Suhl (20. Jh.),
Gesangverein Bittstedt (19./20. Jh.),
Komponistenverband (20. Jh.),
Lautengilde Gräfenroda (19./20. Jh.),
Liedertafel Pfiffelbach (1846),
Liedertafel Remda/ Volkschor Remda (1841-1966),
Männergesangverein Apolda (1820-1938),
Männergesangverein Erfordia (19./20. Jh.),
Männergesangverein Siebleben (19./20. Jh.),
Salonorchester Leube, Gräfenthal (o.J.-20. Jh.),
Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler in der DDR (1950-1990)
Economy
Musikverlag Beyer und Mann, Bad Langensalza (1876-1968)
Deposits, estates, partial estates and bequests
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (Musikarchiv, 18.-20. Jh.),
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Adjuvantenarchiv Bad Lobenstein (18./19. Jh.)
(Katalog in Vorbereitung)
Adjuvantenarchiv Goldbach bei Gotha (17.-19. Jh.)
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Adjuvantenarchiv Gräfenroda (18./19. Jh.)
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Adjuvantenarchiv Großfahner/Eschenbergen (17./18. Jh.)
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Adjuvantenarchiv Molsdorf (18./19. Jh.)
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Adjuvanten- und Kantoreiarchiv Neustadt (Orla) (16.-19. Jh.)
(Katalog in Vorbereitung)
Adjuvantenarchiv Sülzenbrücken/Haarhausen (17.-19. Jh.)
(Katalog in Vorbereitung)
Adjuvantenarchiv Tabarz/Cabarz (18. Jh.)
(Katalog in Vorbereitung)
Adjuvantenarchiv Thörey/Ichtershausen (17./18. Jh.),
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Adjuvantenarchiv Udestedt (17. /18. Jh.)
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Adjuvantenarchiv Vogelsberg (Ende 18./ frühes 19. Jh.)
Online-Katalog (RISM)
Hundeshagen, Material zur Geschichte der Wandermusikanten (1895-1982),
Abendroth, Hermann und Elisabeth (1883-1974),
Baußnern, Waldemar von (1911-1936),
Beyer, Adolf (1876-1968),
Boes-Kniese, Julie (1877-1961),
Böhme, Franz Magnus (1827-1898),
Buchal, Hermann (1884-1961),
Cilensek, Johann (1913-1998),
Franke, Georg (19. Jh.),
Goepfart, Carl (1859-1941),
Grötzner/ Römhild (1693-1953),
Großmann, Helmut (19./20. Jh.),
Hartenstein, Carl (1863-1943),
Herder, Artur (1885-1953),
Hettstedt, Emil (1954),
Hinze-Reinhold, Bruno (1877-1964),
Hlouschek, Theodor (1923-2010),
Hoehn, Alfred (1903-1994),
Kirchner, Franz (1871-1943),
Knesewic, Spiridon (1875-1881),
Köhler, Erich (1877-1973),
Köhler, Johannes Ernst (19./20. Jh.),
Köhler, Karl-Heinz (20. Jh.), Lansky, Josef (1948-1961),
Leipold, Bruno (1879-1949),
Lewin, Gustav (1869-1938),
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886),
Ludwig, Albin (1858-1939),
Martin, Friedrich (1888-1931),
Methfessel, Albert (1785-1869),
Meyer-Olbersleben, Ernst-Ludwig (1940-1946),
Meyerolbersleben, Max (1850-1927),
Möller, Heinrich (1783-1957),
Müllerhartung, Carl (1883-1938),
Münnich Richard (1754, 1919-1965),
Niemeyer, Annemarie (1714-1972),
Rapp, Siegfried (1917-1977),
Rasch, Kurt (1902-1986),
Reisenauer, Alfred (1863-1907),
Rücker, Curt (1949-1969),
Schellenberg, Ernst Ludwig (1904-1953),
Thiele, Alfred (1950-1961),
Thurm, Joachim (20. Jh.),
Töpfer, Rudolf (1847-1967),
Volland, Friedrich Wilhelm (1774-1841),
Vulpius, Melchior (1913-1976),
Werner, Arno (1600-1955),
Werner, Franz (1914-1953),
Wetz, Richard (1901-1955)
Collections
Autograph collection of contemporary composers (1948-1952),
Buchenwald collection/material collection for the exhibition "Dem Morgenrot entgegen!" on the occasion of the inauguration of the Buchenwald Memorial in 1958 (1900-ca. 1960),
Photo collection (1886-2005),
Hymnal collection (18th/20th century),
Composers' library, Karl-Fritz Bernhardt collection, Suhl (19th/20th century),
Collection of musical instruments (74 items),
Composers' portfolios (690 items),
Sheet music collection of various provenance (17th-20th century),
Poster collection (1921-1996),
Thuringian Folk Song Archive, (former Department of Folk Music Research)
Newspaper cuttings (1953-2005 ff)
Electronic data carriers
CDs, films, microfilms, phonograph cylinders, records, music box records, tapes, audio cassettes, videos/DVDs
