“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-普雷乌伊舍尔·库尔布列西茨体育馆(SBB)。这位世界著名艺术家的遗产由此加入了柏林爱乐乐团的首席指挥家之列，其遗产也保存在SBB：其中包括汉斯·冯·布洛、亚瑟·尼基施和威廉·弗特文格勒。克劳迪奥·阿巴多站在世界上最重要的交响乐团面前，倡导演奏新音乐，通过独奏表演、推荐信和建立一流的青年交响乐团鼓励年轻音乐家。此外，他还构思了多学科项目，创办了各种节日，并参与了文化、社会和政治话题。因此，他被认为是过去几十年中最重要和最具个性的音乐家和人物之一。他的音乐遗产包括大约2000卷手写条目和300个伴奏纸质音符，近450本音乐学书籍，大约2500个音频和视频数据载体，以及大约9000份专业信件。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。它们包括排练、音乐会、录音和旅行计划，以及与当代著名音乐家(如卢西亚诺·贝里奥、皮埃尔·布列兹、索菲亚·古贝杜琳娜、汉斯·维尔纳·亨策、乔吉·库尔塔格、乔吉·利盖蒂、维托夫·卢托斯·łAWski、路易吉·诺诺、沃尔夫冈·里姆、阿尔弗雷德·施尼特克、卡尔海因茨·斯托克豪森、伦纳德·伯恩斯坦、伯纳德·海丁克、赫伯特·冯·卡拉扬、祖宾·梅赫塔、里卡多·穆蒂、塞吉·奥扎利什、沃尔夫冈·索尔瓦、马格里希、斯瓦托斯瓦夫·里希特、Mitold Lutosč、鲁吉夫·谢尔金、姆吉、乔治·纳波利托、卡尔海因茨·斯托克豪森、伦纳德·伯恩斯坦、伯纳德·海蒂克、赫伯特·冯·卡拉扬、祖宾·梅赫塔、里卡多·穆蒂、塞吉·奥扎利什、乔治·索尔塔、马格里奇、斯瓦托斯洛·里希特、米斯蒂夫·罗斯特罗波维、鲁吉夫·谢尔金、米吉·施尼特克、乔治·纳波利托、约翰·拉昂、沃尔夫·肖奇和理查德·魏茨瓦尔的推荐信)的通信计划。也在音乐界之外，或关于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共彩排，向绿色米兰宣传该计划或发展自行车道)。阿巴多的遗产自传给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。该项目的目的是为完整的专业信件编制索引，并将克劳迪奥·阿巴多和他的主要助手布里吉塔·格拉布纳的部分数字化，他们的权利已经被授予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.