History
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The Great LibrariesThe ÖNB: Vienna’s Baroque Musical Memory
In Vienna, musical history is inscribed in stone as much as it is preserved in archives. Behind façades and commemorative plaques, the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) safeguards a rich musical memory, shaped by the splendours of baroque opera and the cultural ambitions of the Habsburgs. This is a journey into the heart of a unique, largely little-known heritage—one whose digitization is allowing long-slumbering collections to find their voice once again.
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Women ComposersLa Ménétou, a child prodigy at Versailles
Françoise-Charlotte de Saint-Nectaire (1679–1745) is the youngest French composer to have had her scores published in France. It must be said that this young prodigy was well surrounded, playing her talent as deftly as her instruments—or her connections.
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Women ComposersAnna Bon: a musician at the heart of Enlightenment Europe
Born in 1738 to a singer and a stage designer, Anna Bon led an unusually nomadic life across the musical Europe of the eighteenth century alongside her parents. From the Venetian Ospedale della Pietà to the Esterházy court, she moved on to the vibrant musical circles of the Tsarina’s court in St Petersburg and that of the Margravine of Bayreuth.
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