Swabian State Music Archive

The Swabian State Music Archive at the Institute of Musicology comprises about 32 closed collections from parishes and former monasteries of today's Württemberg and Upper Swabia, an important treasure of historical music records from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was founded in 1935 by Tübingen University Music Director Ernst Fritz Schmid (1904–1960). Works by about 770 composers can be found here, including representatives of Upper Swabian monastic music. The collection as a whole reflects a coherent picture of the Swabian and South German musical heritage and still offers numerous discoveries in detail, including several cantatas by Georg Eberhard Duntz (1705–1775), who worked in Stuttgart as a chapel boy, violinist and chamber musician, as well as mass compositions by the Mannheim court cellist Anton Filz (1733–1760). Parts of the collection can be found in the digital RISM catalog.
Since May 2017, the collections of the State Music Archive are being digitized and published in the University Library's online database „DigiTue“.

To the collection in the eMuseum (selection)