The New Schubert Edition (Neue Schubert-Ausgabe) is a scholarly-critical edition of the complete surviving works of Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Its eighty-four volumes are divided by category into eight series, including a thematic catalogue, a documentary biography, and studies of the sources. Each volume has an appendix citing the major sources and alternative readings (“Quellen und Lesarten”) and is augmented by a separate critical report.
The New Schubert Edition has been in progress at its editorial offices in Tübingen and Vienna since 1965. The international project is managed by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and is based at the Department of Musicology at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, as well as at the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
Recently published Critical Report:
Untitled opera fragments (II/16)
The Mass in E flat major is the last of Schubert’s six settings of the Latin Ordinarium missae. According to the autograph date, the composer began writing it in June …
This volume, which summarizes and comments on those opera fragments that did not get beyond the initial planning or the early draft stage, reflects Schubert’s “hapless love of the theatre”. …
15 and 16 July 2022, Musikwissenschaftliches Institut (Fr. 14–17.30, Sat. 9.30–13)
The Editorial Board of the New Schubert Edition are currently working primarily on Franz Schubert’s masses. The edition of …
The Editorial Board of the New Schubert Edition have revised the editorial guidelines and have now presented them in a new, 7th version. In addition to formal adjustments and changes …
Recently published Critical Report:
Songs for Several Voices of the same Pitch with Accompaniment (III/3)
Franz Schubert’s songs for several voices with piano or guitar accompaniment were just as popular with his …
The contemporary processing of watermarks in Franz Schubert’s music manuscripts has long been a desideratum. As part of the Heritage Science Austria funding program, the interdisciplinary project “Digitization, Recognition and …
On April 1st, 2021 a ‘Commission for Interdisciplinary Schubert Research’ was founded at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The aim of this commission is to uncover social networks in the …
Recently published volume:
Overtures (V/5)
In addition to his symphonies, Franz Schubert wrote eight finished concert overtures between around 1811 and 1819 (two of them in two versions). With the exception of …
