A collection of 12 boxes of programmes from Austria. The programmes are largely from Vienna and Salzburg. The earliest programme in the collection is from Vienna from 1824, and the collection includes significant material from nineteenth-century Vienna.

Vienna:
The collection includes seven boxes of programmes from Vienna, arranged partially by date and partially by venue. The collection includes one box of programmes from the nineteenth century. The collection contains programmes from a wide array of venues including significant amounts of programmes from the following venues: Staatsoper; Burgtheater; Volksoper; Theater an der Wien; Operntheater; Musikverein, including Brahms-Saal and Grosser Musikvereins-Saal; Gesellshaft der Musikfreunde. The collection also contains other items of interest, including ball programmes from the Wiener Philharmoniker.

Salzburg:
The collection includes four boxes of programmes from Salzburg. These are largely festival programmes or concert programmes from the Salzburg Festival. The collection does include a small number of other concert programmes, including two programmes from 1850.

Other:
The collection includes one box of programmes from concerts given in Graz, Klagenfurt and festivals from a variety of other towns and cities in Austria.

Arrangement:
The collection is divided into Vienna/Salzburg/Other. Each of these is arranged in its own way, including a mixture of chronological and venue-based arrangement.

1824 -

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Not Specific

• Salzburger Festspiele -
• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra -

• Austria
• Burgtheater, Vienna
• Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna
• Graz
• Musikverein: Brahmssaal
• Musikverein: Grosser Musikvereinsaal
• Operntheater, Vienna
• Salzburg
• Staatsoper, Vienna
• Theater an der Wien
• Wien
• Volksoper, Vienna

• 19th century - early 1800-1836
• 19th century - early Victorian 1837-1850
• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
• 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875
• 20th century - early 1900-1930
• 20th century - late 1971-1999
• 20th century - mid 1931-1970

• Opera

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The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.