Traditional lines and correspondence networks of a Dresden musician dynasty. The estate of the Dresden artist family Franz Schubert as a document of the development of courtly and bourgeois music culture in the 19th century.

• Applicant: Janine Schütz
• Subject Area: Musicology ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2018 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 395900540

The Dresden musician dynasty Franz Schubert comprises a total of four successive names of the Viennese composer, who represent the cultural life of one of Europe's leading musical metropolises from the late 18th to the 20th century in an exemplary manner. The collection of more than 800 letters and correspondences of the family in the Historical Archives of Saxon State Theaters was restored until the end of 2016. It is a model project of the KEK (coordination center for the preservation of the written cultural heritage).The scientific research and publication of the results in digital detection systems is the aim of the applied research project. Above all, the analysis of more than 650 correspondence pieces by the Schubert family with about 150 eminent (musician) personalities of their time would be a pioneering contribution to the exploration of an exemplary artistic network that crossed the cultural city of Dresden in the 19th century.The development of the singular and at the same time exemplary sources would generally provide the scientific community with valuable documents for the exploration of musical life in the surroundings of the representative Royal Court Theater Dresden operatives as well as the cultural-historical upheavals in the 19th century. Conceivable thematic focal points range from initiatives to a new bourgeois concert culture by the concertmaster Franz Anton Schubert - in the personal environment Robert and Clara Schumanns as well as Richard Wagner - to the question of the role of the two pan-European successful orchestral singers Maschinka and Georgine Schubert: as renowned artists and chroniclers of a male-influenced family tradition within the 19th century.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigators: Wolfgang Rothe; Elisabeth Telle; Sophia Zeil