Paul Sacher Stiftung

born june 17, 1919, in petrograd (saint petersburg), ussr
died december 22, 2006, in saint petersburg, russia

• typescripts
• photographs
• music manuscripts: fair copies

• galina ustvol'skaja collection: music manuscripts (december 1, 2017) - pdf online
• internal inventories

(1883–1965) 
american composer of french origin

• music manuscripts: fair copies
• music manuscripts: sketches and drafts
• proof sheets/personal copies
• textual manuscripts
• correspondence
• programs/reviews
• photographs
• sound recordings
• library

• edgard varèse collection: music manuscripts (1 december 2017) - pdf online
• edgard varèse collection: correspondence (21 december 2017) - pdf online
• edgard varèse collection: correspondence louise varèse (11 december 2017) - pdf online
• edgard varèse collection: personal documents (1 december 2017) - pdf online
• internal inventories

(1907–1992) 
hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist

• library
• sound recordings
• films/videos
• music manuscripts: fair copies
• proof sheets/personal copies
• music manuscripts: sketches and drafts
• programs/reviews
• photographs
• typescripts
• correspondence

(1909–1973) 
swiss harpsichord player

• proof sheets/personal copies
• correspondence
• music manuscripts: fair copies
• sound recordings
• programs/reviews
• photographs

sammlung antoinette vischer: musikmanuskripte [antoinette vischer collection: music manuscripts], inventories of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 24 (mainz: schott musik international, 2003) – out of print

(1924–2001) 
swiss pianist

• musikmanuskripte: skizzen und entwürfe
• musikmanuskripte: reinschriften
• probedrucke/aufführungsmaterial
• korrespondenz
• fotos

sammlungen paul sacher, antoinette vischer, margrit weber: musikmanuskripte [paul sacher, antoinette vischer, and margrit weber collections: music manuscripts], first edition, inventories of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 1 (winterthur: amadeus, 1988) – out of print

born december 3, 1883, in vienna, austria
died september 15, 1945, in mittersill, austria

the anton webern collection basically consists of the documents gathered together by the webern scholar and collector hans moldenhauer in the years following the second world war and incorporated in his extensive archive of source materials. it was acquired by the paul sacher foundation in 1984, along with two smaller collections related to hildegard jone and ernst diez, likewise located in the moldenhauer archives. over the years the collection was augmented with further webern manuscripts and letters, partly from the moldenhauer archives and partly from other sources.

the collection contains sketches and/or fair copies for every webern work with an opus number (opp. 1 to 31) as well as many manuscripts of unpublished or posthumously published compositions. it also contains many student exercises, fragmentary works and projects, letters, autobiographical notes, printed documentary material, and parts of webern’s personal library. especially important are the last five of six sketchbooks documenting his complete creative output from the final twenty years of his life. also housed in the collection are sources that shed light on moldenhauer’s founding of the international webern society and the research he conducted for his webern biography.

this collection represents the world’s largest body of sources on webern’s creative output. together with the webern manuscripts preserved in other archives and private collections, it is currently being analyzed and evaluated for the complete scholarly edition of webern’s music, prepared by the musicological seminar of basel university.

• music manuscripts: ca. 3000 pages of sketches, drafts, and fair copies
• printed scores: ca. 140 proof sheets and personal copies
• textual manuscripts: ca. 900 pages
• correspondence: ca. 2100 pages
• programmes / reviews: 1 archival box
• photographs: ca. 130
• library: ca. 240 volumes

ca. 1899–1945 / 1960–1970

• 1984 collection enters the pss holdings

• anton webern collection: music manuscripts (29 june 2018) – pdf online
• internal inventories

• thomas ahrend, «heftige bewegungen der seele, die doch sehr leise sind». zum bearbeitungsprozess von anton weberns rilke-liedern op. 8
  in: re-set. rückgriffe und fortschreibungen in der musik seit 1900, ed. simon obert and heidy zimmermann, mainz: schott, 2018, pp. 102–10
• anton webern, briefe an heinrich jalowetz, publications of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 7, ed. ernst lichtenhahn, schott: mainz, 1999
• anton webern, über musikalische formen. aus den vortragsmitschriften von ludwig zenk, siegfried oehlgiesser, rudolf schopf und erna apostel, publications of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 8, ed. neil boynton, mainz: schott, 2002
• anne c. shreffler, traces left behind: webern’s musical nachlass and compositional process
  in: settling new scores: music manuscripts from the paul sacher foundation, ed. felix meyer, mainz: schott, 1998, pp. 103–06
• felix meyer, anton webern: variations for orchestra, op. 30
  in: settling new scores: music manuscripts from the paul sacher foundation, ed. felix meyer, mainz: schott 1998, pp. 109–14
• felix meyer, «o sanftes glühn der berge». ein verworfenes «stück mit gesang» von anton webern
  in: quellenstudien ii. zwölf komponisten des 20. jahrhunderts, publications of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 3, ed. felix meyer, winterthur: amadeus, 1993, pp. 11–38
• felix meyer, im zeichen der reduktion. quellenkritische und analytische bemerkungen zu anton weberns rilke-liedern op. 8
  in: quellenstudien i. gustav mahler, igor strawinsky, anton webern, frank martin, publications of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 3, ed. hans oesch, winterthur: amadeus, 1991, pp. 53–100
• hans oesch, webern und das sator-palindrom
  in: quellenstudien i. gustav mahler, igor strawinsky, anton webern, frank martin, publications of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 3, ed. hans oesch, winterthur: amadeus, 1991, pp. 100–56

• no. 29, 2016: yuta asai, vom akkord zur polyphonie: zum kompositionsprozess von anton weberns "das kreuz, das mußt’ er tragen" op. 15/1
• no. 28, 2015: simon obert, "… die konsequenzen ziehe ich …": ein neu aufgefundener brief von schönberg an webern
• no. 14, 2001: felix wörner, "... mit dem 3. das stück flott hinausschmeißen": zu anton weberns korrekturen im 3. satz seines konzertes op. 24
• no. 12, 1999: matthew r. shaftel, webern, schoenberg, and the original version of "himmelfahrt"
• no. 11, 1998: dominik schweiger, weberns verworfene mikrotöne
• no. 11, 1998: jean-louis leleu, le choix des registres dans le deuxième mouvement des variations pour piano op. 27 de webern: ce que disent les esquisses
• no. 9, 1996: christopher hailey, webern’s letters to david josef bach
• no. 5, 1992: juri n. cholopow, über weberns begriffssystem der formenlehre
• no. 5, 1992: martin hoyer, neues zu anton weberns frühen liedern
• no. 5, 1992: lauriejean reinhardt, webern’s literary encounter with hildegard jone
• no. 4, 1991: graham phipps, harmonic thought in webern's sketches
• no. 4, 1991: robert w. wason, remnants of tonality in webern’s op. 3/2
• no. 4, 1991: anne c. shreffler, a new trakl fragment by webern: some notes on "klage"
• no. 4, 1991: gareth cox, einige quellenkritische bemerkungen zu weberns satz für klavier (m. 112)
• no. 3, 1990: susanne rode, "schweigt auch die welt, aus farben ist sie immer …": ganz kleine sachen zu anton webern und hildegard jone
• no. 3, 1990: shinichiro okabe, anton webern: sketches

anton webern gesamtausgabe awg
editor: universal edition

2 february 2023

born on 1 may 1899 in safenwil, aargau, switzerland
died on 4 february 1962 in basel, switzerland

the music-related documents from the autograph collection of the basel economist arthur wilhelm (1899-1962) have been placed on deposit in the custody of the paul sacher foundation, thereby making another significant basel collection available for scholarly research.

the arthur wilhelm collection comprises more than 250 music manuscripts, letters from musicians, handwritten texts and dedications from the 18th to 20th century, including a great many autographs of supreme antiquarian value.

born in safenwil, near zofingen, arthur wilhelm took his doctorate in heidelberg in 1923. he was an amateur in the best sense of the word: alongside a career in the chemical industry, where he rose from an italian correspondent in the dyes department of ciba to become vice-president of the company, he maintained a passion for culture and intellectual history. by collecting manuscripts from various fields, especially music, he came into direct contact with artistic genius wholly in the spirit of stefan zweig

an oral anecdote bears this out: one day wilhelm was offered a miscellany of unpublished songs by a famous composer. he asked for time to think it over and took the manuscript home. there his wife sang the songs to him, accompanied by a pianist, while he followed the music in the original with his children. only then did he decide to purchase the miscellany and to make arrangements for its publication. (see tilman seebass, musikhandschriften in basel aus verschiedenen sammlungen: ausstellung kunstmuseum basel vom 31. mai bis zum 13. juli 1975, basel: basler berichthaus, 1975, p. 23.)

wilhelm's collecting activities already began in the mid-1930s and came to an abrupt end with his unexpected death. yet the significance of his collection was already recognised during his lifetime. in an annual report from basel university library, the head of the music department (probably hans zehntner, who at that time was also head of the swiss economic archive) is said to have prepared "a display of valuable music manuscripts from alessandro scarlatti to benjamin britten" from wilhelm's autograph collection (bericht über die vewaltung der öffentlichen bibliothek der universität basel im jahre 1958, basel, 1959, p. 19). this private exhibition was held in the rooms of ciba during the annual meeting of the swiss musicological society in autumn 1958. (ciba, the acronym of chemische industrie basel, was founded in 1884 and bore the name ciba-geigy from 1970 to 1992. in 1996 it merged with sandoz laboratories to become novartis.) later, in an exhibition in the basel kunstmuseum (1975), some two dozen selected autographs from wilhelm's collection were displayed in public and documented, along with manuscripts from other private collections (seebass, op. cit.).

an overview of the arthur wilhelm collection in its entirety presents scholars with a good many discoveries and provides answers to many unanswered questions regarding documents whose whereabouts were long unknown. for example, the many significant manuscripts ranging from johann sebastian bach, joseph haydn, wolfgang amadeus mozart, ludwig van beethoven, franz schubert, gioacchino rossini, franz liszt, johannes brahms and hugo wolf to arnold schoenberg, igor stravinsky, anton webern, paul hindemith and william walton included several surprising documents, four of which were briefly introduced when the collection entered the foundation's holdings in 2016 (mitteilungen der paul sacher stiftung no. 30, april 2017; for pdf see below).

• 143 music manuscripts
• 10 historical music prints
• 4 handwritten texts
• 110 letters, postcards, etc.
• 1 concert programme

ca. 1700 to 1950

2016 collection enters the pss holdings

internal catalogues can be consulted at the pss

• heidy zimmermann et al., neue sammlungen 2016: sammlung arthur wilhelm [new collections 2016, german text only], mitteilungen der paul sacher stiftung, no. 30, 2017, pp. 5-13 (pdf here)

8 february 2019

(1902–1972) 
american composer of german origin

• music manuscripts: fair copies
• typescripts
• music manuscripts: sketches and drafts
• photographs
• correspondence
• programs/reviews

(1893–1979) 
french composer of russian origin

• sound recordings
• music manuscripts: fair copies
• proof sheets/personal copies
• music manuscripts: sketches and drafts
• programs/reviews
• photographs
• typescripts
• correspondence
• instruments (on deposit at the museum für musik basel)

sammlung ivan wyschnegradsky: musikmanuskripte [ivan vyshnegradsky collection: music manuscripts], inventories of the paul sacher foundation, vol. 26 (mainz: schott musik international, 2004) – out of print

(1935–2021) 
swiss composer, conductor, and pianist

• music manuscripts: fair copies
• proof sheets/personal copies
• music manuscripts: sketches and drafts
• photographs

(1900–1949) 
austrian composer

• programs/reviews
• photographs
• music manuscripts: sketches and drafts