The ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'' is a quarterly German-English-speaking
trade magazine
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devoted to
music history
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and historical
musicology
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, which publishes articles by well-known academics and young scholars.
It was founded in 1918 as the successor of the ''Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft'' by
Max Seiffert,
Johannes Wolf and
Max Schneider
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, who were also the first editors. It was under the patronage of the Fürstliches Institut für musikwissenschaftliche Forschung zu Bückeburg. The first two volumes 1918/1919 and 1919/1920 were published by
Breitkopf & Härtel
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Overview
The catalogue contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works ...
, then the volumes 1921 to 1926 by .
With the 8th volume the publication of the journal was stopped in 1927, but resumed in 1952 with the 9th volume. Publisher of the quarterly was
Wilibald Gurlitt (in connection with
Heinrich Besseler,
Walter Gerstenberg and
Arnold Schmitz), who assigned the editorship to
Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. With the 19th/20th volume 1962/1963 the Archive for Musicology was taken over by the
Franz Steiner Verlag and the publication to Eggebrecht, who kept it together with the editor until the 56th volume (1999).
Albrecht Riethmüller has been publishing the journal since 2000, the editors are Frank Hentschel (2000-2006),
Gregor Herzfeld (2007-2014) and Andreas Domann (since 2015).
Since 1966 the journal has been supplemented by the book series ''Supplements to the Archive for Musicology''. It contains musicological monographs, in particular
dissertations and
habilitation
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thesis. So far (2018) more than 80 volumes have been published.
The journal holds the status of
refereed journal.
As of 2018, the editors were:
*
Albrecht Riethmüller,
Freie Universität Berlin
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, responsible publisher, in collaboration with:
*
Ludwig Finscher, Wolfenbüttel
* Frank Hentschel,
*
Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, University of Zürich
*
Birgit Lodes, University of Vienna
*
Anne C. Shreffler,
Anne C. Shreffler
at Harvard University
* Wolfram Steinbeck, University of Cologne
References
Further reading
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External links
''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft''
on the Website of the Franz Steiner Verlages
Erster Jahrgang
des ''Archivs für Musikwissenschaft'' in State Institute for Music Research
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Music journals
Magazines established in 1918
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