Bibliotheca Sonans
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Project was conducted as a part of “Culture 2000 Program” and has been completed within period of one year: since 1.09.2004 till 30.08.2005.
Coordinator of that project was Wroclaw's Carmelites choir - Cantores Minores Wratislavienses, and coorganizers: Wroclaw University Library, University Library Graz and National Library in Prague. Aim of that project was to: support common cultural heritage of many nations, protect and popularize archive and antiques of music and promote mutual cultural knowledge. It was planned in form of moving exhibitions, concerts – vernissage and expositions in electronic form in internet. “Bibliotheca Sonans” project has been divided into three stages:
- restoration, conservation and digitization of music antiques from participating libraries:
- Wroclaw (Poland) – Wroclaw University Library (inter alia incunabula collection – oldest prints published before 1501, music collection from so called Bibliotheca Rudolphina from Legnica, music manuscripts from St. Elizabeth Church in Wroclaw),
- Graz (Austria) - Karl-Franzens-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek,
- Prague (Czech Republic) - Narodni Knihovna CR.
- exhibitions and concerts:
- Wroclaw – Oratorium Marianum in Main Building of University of Wrocław and in other cities: co-ordinators of project – Graz (Austria), Prague (Czech Republic) and partners of project – Bratislava (Slovakia), Brasov (Romania)
- recording of music antiques, preparation of internet web page (electronic version of exhibition), preparation of exhibitions’ catalogs and sending them to one hundred European libraries, that signed agreement for publication exchange with Wroclaw University Library.
More information about project summary was published on EBIB's web page.
Documentation of project realization and photos from exhibitions could be viewed on Wroclaw University Library web page.
Completed project could be viewed in Digital Library of WU.