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The archival holdings at the Orff Center are used for scholarly purposes, professional work, and further education.
The collections and works preserved on its premises are all accessible to the public within the strictures of its House Rules. |
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Archival Holdings
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Those music manuscripts which have been left on deposit at the Bavarian State Library may be viewed at the Orff Center on microfilm. The same applies to the nearly 40,000 catalogued letters in Carl Orff's correspondence, which is housed at the Center. The media library contains 1,500 units, including some 700 recordings of the works of Carl Orff. Photograph collections and video films document the composer's life and work. The performance history of the works can be studied on the basis of contemporary documents: live recordings, videos, program booklets, reviews, drafts, models, figurines, and so forth. A press archive currently in preparation will round off the sources for the general reception of Orff's music to the present day. There is also a family archive dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the first half of the twentieth.
Further posthumous estates from the composer's surroundings are scheduled to be deposited at the Orff Center. These already include parts of the estate of Gunild Keetman, one of his close associates at the Günther School and at the Orff Institute of the Salzburg Mozarteum.
The reading room has a reference collection of approximately 5,000 volumes. All the major publications on Carl Orff and his work are available here within easy reach. Besides recent books of reference, visitors will also find selected literature on those eras of cultural history with which Orff's works are associated: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Baroque, the twentieth century. In 1994 the Orff Center was able to acquire the private library of the musicologist Stefan Kunze (1933-1992), usefully complementing the institute's library with writings on the history of music theater from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries.
All these materials may be consulted in the Orff Center's reading room. |
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