‘Mozart new edition’ now online for free

As the end of a full year of Mozart celebrations nears, the musical scores of his complete works have been made available for free on the web. The bound volumes of the composer’s works, which consist of over 24,000 pages, have been posted on the internet by the International Mozart Foundation located in Salzburg, Austria. The books are a digitised version of the prestigious ‘New Mozart Edition’ (’Neue Mozart Ausgabe,’ or NMA) which is considered the gold standard of Mozart editions. The edition serves as an aid to authentic performances, as well as providing music researchers with an accurate text based on available sources, such as Mozart’s autographed manuscripts. NMA-online will further aid research, as well as enabling non-experts to access the composer’s scores in a user-friendly manner. Visitors to the website (http://dme.mozarteum.at) can search for specific symphonies, concertos or even single lines of text, writes Deutsche Welle. The site has some traffic problems the moment, but check back later.

Recently I picked up classical guitar again and I have enjoyed two sites in special for that hobby of mine. First of all Classtab that hosts tons of quality tabs, videos and midis. Most tabs are in different versions which is great for newbies advancing technically with a piece. Secondly I use the cool metronome at MetrononeOnline. I needed a metronome and went shopping by Google for it, and there is was free on the web. The site also gives you a clean “A” for tuning your instrument.

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