Opera Omnia Documenta Sigismund Toduţă

The aim of the “Documenta” collection named “Sigismund Toduţă Opera Omnia” is to gather on digital format, in princeps edition, Sigismund Toduţă’s entire composition operas. This compilation is supposed to document the entire creation of the artist, starting from the early manuscripts to the final form of his opera. The idea to entirely edit Toduta’s creation arose, step by step, some years ago, after the list of his operas and the number of his finished works had been completed. Undoubtably the promotion of his music using scores should be performed by a famous musical publishing house; but until we will be able to come up with an ideal solution the Sigismund Toduţă Foundation, coordinated nowadays by University Professor Ninuca Oşanu Pop, decided along with the musicologist Constanţa Cristescu, to scan his manuscripts, to keep them in digital format and to list them afterwards.
Thus the interpreters will be able to access a genuine score more easily, and the musicologists will have the opportunity to study the various aspects of writing from a technical and rhetorical point of view. All these steps are necessary in order to rightfully place Sigismund Toduţă’s creation among the pages of the history of Romanian modern music. The complete number of his compositions and writings, concerning their genesis, totalizes a collection of 150 manuscripts, having 200 compositions or more than 15000 pages.
Toduţă’s essays about music, gathered in 1000 pages, also very important for the Romanian musicological culture and not only will be  integrated in another editing project. The main partners and collaborators of this project are The Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists and “Gheorghe Dima”  Academy of Music of Cluj-Napoca. 
The material for the princeps CD editing will be systematized according to the following criterions:
1. - the type of instrument the composition is meant for: solo voice, solo instrument, choir, chamber music orchestra, vocal-symphony orchestra, opera;
2. - general thematic series;
3. - the predominant source of inspiration, declared or determined by the followers;
4. - subsidiary criterions, derived from 1, 2, 3.