Published August 17, 2024 | Version v1
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50 Years of Art Song & Gender on Major European Stages, Part 1 (Austria): Vienna's Konzerthaus, Musikverein & Salzburg Festspiele Song Recitals 1970 - 2020

  • 1. ROR icon University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Description

3 .csv files containing names, years and gender breakdown (m=male, f=female, b=both) of pianists, singers, and composers featured vocal recitals on the three most prestigious stages in Austria, the Musikverein an Konzerthaus in Vienna and at the Salzburger Festpiele between 1970 and 2020.

Data was scraped by the author from the Festspiele digital archive (https://archive.salzburgerfestspiele.at/archiv), the concert archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien (https://www.musikverein.at/en/archive/) and the Konzerthaus databank (https://konzerthaus.at/datenbanksuche) and is part of an ongoing project to visibilize the gendered nature of collaborative piano at the most prestigious levels. Thanks to Diána Fuchs (https://diana-fuchs.com/) who assisted with the collection of the Musikverein data, with the support of Melanie Unseld at the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Files

50 Years Art Song and Gender on Major Austrian Stages_1970-2020 - Konzerthaus Vienna.csv