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| Music Collection Musicians and scholars of music have only known about the music collection of the Arenberg family's private archives at Enghien, which is remarkable both for its quality and the quantity, for a decade now. Research in this collection by the musicologist Marie Cornaz has resulted in the production of two catalogues, which were published in the 1995 and 2004 volumes of the Revue belge de Musicologie (Belgian Musicology review). The two catalogues reveal that this is one of the richest private collections in Belgium, forming an exceptional international musical heritage of almost one thousand five hundred pieces. The French version of this site offers the opportunity of consulting the complete catalogue as well as a selection of illustrations from a number of 18th century manuscripts and editions. The cataloguing of the musical collection is only the starting point of a vast development project, assisted by the AACC. The project includes: - writing a book (manuscript due in 2008): taking as its starting point the work already completed, the book will illustrate the Arenberg family's relationship with music, mainly from the end of the 17th century through to the second half of the 19th century. It will include hitherto unpublished information about a certain number of well known, little known or previously unknown works of music, and also about numerous Italian, French, German, Austrian, English and Belgian musicians, singers and composers from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. - highlighting the value of unknown high quality works of music in the collection: participating in recordings, concerts and the publishing of scores. For more details, see French version. |
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