Online Chopin Variorum Edition
- Link
- www.chopinonline.ac.uk
- Status
- active
- How they describe themselves
- online musical edition, interlinked archive, philological descriptions, personal annotation tools
- Blurb
- An eighteen-month pilot study for the OCVE project was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2003–04, followed by three developmental phases (2005–09, 2011–15, and 2015–17). The OCVE site currently comprises c. 6,000 digital images of individual pages of primary source material of the music of Fryderyk Chopin, comprising music text and other elements of manuscripts, first editions, and later impressions produced during Chopin’s lifetime or after his death, along with associated metadata. The latter includes excerpts from Christophe Grabowski and John Rink’s Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s First Editions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which itself is available in digitised form in the Chopin Online resource. So too is a restructured and redesigned version of Chopin’s First Editions Online (CFEO). Together these three sites constitute a resource of unprecedented breadth and depth, providing new access to the most important sources, fostering new understanding of their individual and collective significance, and facilitating scholarly research and performance alike.
- Creator(s)
- John Rink (Project Director), Miguel Vieira (Technical Director), et al.
- Steward(s)
- University of Cambridge, King’s College London