Introduction
This website contains an evolving thematic catalogue of Gregor Joseph Werner’s works.
This catalogue is work-in-progress and likely contains errors or duplicate entries. Its contents are subject to change as we screen more and more manuscripts.
For general and biographical information on Werner, see Czernin (2020a), Moder (1959), Petermayr (2007), and Unverricht (2001).
Overview
We classify Werner’s works as Vocal music (groups A to L) and instrumental music (groups M to Q). Groups D, H, and I are further divided into subgroups to provide a more fine-grained classification and to preserve work numbering if further works are discovered. Within each (sub-)group, works are ordered by library and siglum; the more important libraries (H-Bn and A-Ed) appear first, followed by other libraries. Following works with ascertained authorship, lost works (prefix L followed by consecutive number) and spurious and uncertain attributions (prefix S followed by consecutive number) are included.
Vocal music comprises
- A. Oratorios
- B. Masses
- C. Requiems, Libera
- D. Short liturgical works
- Motets
- Offertories
- Responsoria
- Rorates
- Miscellaneous works
- Motets
- E. German sacred music
- F. Hymns
- G. Litanies
- H. Vespers
- Complete vespers
- Psalms
- Magnificats
- Complete vespers
- I. Marian hymns
- Alma redemptoris mater
- Ave regina coelorum
- Regina coeli
- Salve regina
- Sub tuum praesidium
- Alma redemptoris mater
- J. Te Deums
- K. Lamentations
- L. Profane vocal music
Instrumental music comprises
- M. Sonatas
- N. Pastorellas
- O. Partitas
- P. Sinfonias
- Q. Concertos
The catalogue contains at least the following information for each work:
- title
- one or more incipits
- identifiers in other catalogues
- sources (linked to the respective RISM entry, if available)
- miscellaneous notes
- relevant literature
In addition, we are annotating more and more works with detailed metadata in MEI format (Music Encoding Initiative, 2023).
Works in the catalogue should be cited by the abbreviation “WerW”, followed by the group, subgroup (if applicable), and work number; the latter three components should be separated by a period.
Methods
Sources
We consulted the following sources, of which some contain partial catalogues of Werner’s works:
- Czernin (2020b) – sources in Austria
- Dolezal & Diözese Eisenstadt (2018) – database with digitized manuscripts of the Dommusikarchiv Eisenstadt
- Dopf (1956) – masses
- Eitner (1904) – sources known around 1900
- Hárich (1932) – works in the National Szechenyi Library Budapest
- Hárich (1975) – instrumental works
- Hárich (1976) – oratorios
- Mikusi (2020) – sonatas
- Murányi (1997) – works in the National Szechenyi Library Budapest
- Petermayr (2015) – German church arias and pastorellas
- Petermayr (2020) – instrumental works
- Winkler-Klement (2013) – works in the Dommusikarchiv Eisenstadt
- Winkler-Klement (2020) – masses and oratorios
- a draft catalogue of works by Klaus Petermayr (personal communication)
Analysis
The work list assembled from these sources (data/catalogue_works.csv) was checked against and supplemented by RISM entries. To this end, entries were downloaded via sru-downloader on 2024-01-27, yielding 867 entries. In the resulting XML file, all tags in the zs namespace were removed, yielding the XML file data/rism_entries.xml, which only contains MarcXML tags:
java -jar SRUDownloader.jar "https://muscat.rism.info/sru/sources?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=creator=%22Werner,%20Gregor%20Joseph%22&maximumRecords=100"
grep -v "<zs:" output.xml | \
grep -v "</zs:" | \
grep -v "<marc:collection" | \
grep -v "</marc:collection" | \
sed '1 a\<marc:collection xmlns:marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim">' | \
sed '$ a\</marc:collection>' \
> rism_entries.xml
rm output.xmlPages for all groups of works were generated automatically from catalogue_overview.csv and catalogue_works.csv. If manually curated incipits were unavailable for a work, the first incipit of the first source with a RISM entry was included. Data from the RISM Catalogue (e.g., Plaine & Easie Code for incipits) by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 3.0 Unported License.
Detailed work metadata was edited with MerMEId v2.0. Incipits were either prepared with MuseScore, polished with mei-friend, and rendered with Verovio, or created with LilyPond and EES Tools. XML files were exported from MerMEId and post-processed. These pages are rendered using the BravuraText font v1.392 and Verovio.
Data and code availability
Datasets and code used for preparing this catalogue are available from GitHub.
Acknowledgements
Assistance of the following people and institutions is gratefully acknowledged: Thomas Dolezal (Dommusikarchiv Eisenstadt – A-Ed), Peter Deinhammer (Benediktinerstift Lambach, Musikarchiv – A-LA), P. Roman Nägele (Stift Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald, Musikarchiv – A-HE), Ilse Beel (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Bibliotheek – B-Bc), Maria Šťastná (Knihovna Národního muzea, Praha – CZ-Pn and CZ-Pnm), Gertraud Gaukesbrink (Santini-Bibliothek, Münster – D-MÜs), Klaus Petermayr (Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Musiksammlung), as well as the staff of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Wien (A-Wn), the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl), the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, Musikabteilung (D-DS), the Duke University Libraries, Music Library, Durham, NC (US-DMu), and the Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern (CH-Lz).
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