Mozart's Entire Music Now Free on Internet

Music Czar Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending

on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available, for the

first time, free on the Internet. According to a Reuters' report, the

International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria has put up a scholarly

edition of the bound volumes of more than 600 works composed by Mozart on a

website.

The website allows the visitors to search for specific

symphonies, arias or even single lines of text from some 24,000 pages of music.

The version appearing on the Internet is a digitized copy of the "New

Mozart Edition" published by Barenreiter of Kassel, Germany. It is

considered the "gold standard" of Mozart editions and Leisinger said

that Barenreiter was paid $4,00,000 for the digital publication rights. The

financial backing came from the Packard Humanities Institute of Los Altos,

California.

Compiled by Stuti Das



stutid@cybermedia.co.in