Music in history and present

First edition.

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) (translated as Music throughout History and in the Present) is the largest German encyclopedia of music and is a source on Western music only comparable to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in size and depth. It is published by Bärenreiter-Verlag of Kassel and J. B. Metzler of Stuttgart.

The first edition comprises 17 volumes, two of which are supplements and one, an index. The second and current edition (1994-2007) consists of a thematic encyclopedia in 10 volumes (counting the index) and a biographical encyclopedia in 17 volumes. An additional supplement was published in May 2008.

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