“that you approach everything you do with love and passion”. Cataloguing and digitisation of Claudio Abbado's correspondence at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

2016年，克劳迪奥·阿巴多的音乐遗产由米兰的“克劳迪奥·阿巴多基金会”捐赠给柏林国家图书馆。这位世界著名艺术家的遗产因此加入了柏林爱乐乐团首席指挥的行列，他们的遗产也保存在SBB：这些包括汉斯·冯·比洛、亚瑟·尼基施和威廉·富特文格勒。克劳迪奥·阿巴多（Claudio Abbado）站在世界上最重要的管弦乐队面前，倡导新音乐的表演，通过独奏表演，推荐信和建立顶级青年管弦乐队来鼓励年轻音乐家。此外，他构思了多学科方案，创办了各种节日，并参与了文化，社会和政治主题。因此，他被认为是过去几十年中最重要和最多面的音乐家和人物之一。他的音乐遗产包括大约2,000卷手写条目的音乐和300个附带的指挥纸笔记，近450本音乐学书籍，约1000本。2，500个音频和视频数据载体以及约9，000份专业通信文件。后者是关于音乐生活、表演和项目的重要信息来源，也是关于阿巴多的文化政治和社会承诺的重要信息来源。其中包括排练，音乐会，录音和旅行的计划，以及与当代著名人物的通信（例如：Luciano Berio，Pierre Boulez，索菲亚Gubaidulina，Hans Werner Henze，György Kurtág，György Ligeti，Witold Lutoszawski，Luigi Nono，Wolfgang Rihm，Alfred Schnittke，Karlheinz Stockhausen，伦纳德伯恩斯坦，Bernard Haitink，赫伯特von Karajan，Zubin Mehta，Riccardo Muti，Seiji Ozawa，Wolfgang Sawallisch，Georg Solti，Martha Argerich，Swjatoslaw Richter，Mstislav Rostropovieti，Rudolf Serkin，Mario Draghi，Giorgio Napolitano，Johannes Rau，Wolfgang Schäuble and Richard von Weizsäcker），给未来音乐家的推荐信，Abbado关于广泛主题的声明和意见，也在音乐界之外，或阿巴多的社会和生态承诺的文件（例如为弱势群体举办慈善音乐会和公开排练，推广绿色米兰计划或发展自行车道）。阿巴多庄园自流传到柏林以来一直受到众多用户的需求，现在是音乐实践和科学研究的焦点。该项目的目的是为全部专业通信编制索引，并将Claudio Abbado及其主要助手Brigitta Grabner的部分数字化，他们的权利已经授予SBB。还考虑对所有濒危文件进行保护性数字化。

In 2016, Claudio Abbado's musical legacy was donated to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB) by the “Fondazione Claudio Abbado” in Milan. The estate of the world-famous artist thus joins the group of chief conductors of the Berlin Philharmonic, whose estates are kept in the SBB, too: these include Hans von Bülow, Arthur Nikisch and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Claudio Abbado stood in front of the most important orchestras worldwide, advocated for the performance of new music, encouraged young musicians through solo performances, letters of recommendation and by founding top-class youth orchestras. Moreover, he conceived multidisciplinary programmes, founded various festivals and got involved in cultural, social and political topics. He is thus considered one of the most important and multifaceted musicians and personalities of the last decades. His musical legacy contains around 2,000 volumes of music with handwritten entries and 300 accompanying conducting paper notes, almost 450 musicological books, ca. 2,500 audio and video data carriers and around 9,000 documents of professional correspondence. The latter represent an important source of information on musical life, performances and projects, but also on Abbado's cultural-political and social commitment. They comprise plans of rehearsals, concerts, recordings and travels, as well as correspondence with famous contemporary personalities (e.g Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski, Luigi Nono, Wolfgang Rihm, Alfred Schnittke, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Haitink, Herbert von Karajan, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Georg Solti, Martha Argerich, Swjatoslaw Richter, Mstislav Rostropovič, Rudolf Serkin, Mario Draghi, Giorgio Napolitano, Johannes Rau, Wolfgang Schäuble and Richard von Weizsäcker), letters of recommendation for prospective musicians, statements and opinions by Abbado on a wide range of topics, also outside the musical world, or documents on Abbado's social and ecological commitments (e.g. performance of benefit concerts and public rehearsals for the disadvantaged, promotion of the program to green Milan or the development of bicycle lanes). The Abbado estate has been in demand by numerous users since it was handed down to Berlin and is now the focus of practical and scientific research in music. The aim of this project is to index the complete professional correspondence and to digitise the portion of Claudio Abbado and his main assistant Brigitta Grabner, whose rights have already been granted to the SBB. A protective digitisation of all endangered documents is also contemplated.