Düben collection

The Dübensammlung is a collection of about 2300 works of music of over 300 named composers as well as some unknown composer. Overall, the collection contains over 30,000 handwritten pages and about 50 printed works and today represents one of the most important original sources of musical works of the 17th century, among other well-known composers such as Dieterich Buxtehude and Heinrich Schütz dar.

History

This collection was compiled in the years 1640-1720 by the Swedish court conductor Gustav Duben and his son and later handed over to the Uppsala University Library. Here they came first in an attic forgotten until it was rediscovered in 1888 by Carl Stiehl. In 1988, the musicologist at the University of Uppsala Erik Kjellberg launched jointly with Kerala Snyder an initiative to digitize the works that should be made ​​available to the public via the Internet. In September 2006, the database was passed as part of a musicological symposium at the Museum Gustavianum and a concert of the public. Since 1986, the works are cataloged and included in Libris, as well as the local database DISA searchable.

Content

The Dübensammlung contains a large number of vocal works mainly in the music scene around the Baltic Sea, but also the Italian, French and English music world. A large proportion set including works of Lübeck composer Dieterich Buxtehude dar. also contains French opera music, and works by composers such as Vincenzo Albrici, Giacomo Carissimi, Henri Dumont and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. In addition, the Dübensammlung is the authoritative source for the instrumental music of the 17th century, next to the score book Ludwig, the collection Kromeriz and the information gathered by Franz Codex rust rust.