Today I have installed a very first version of a complete relaunch of the old homepage of ‘Music for Oboe’ on Beauty of Code: the Haynes catalogue. ‘Music for Oboe’ is a quite complete listing of compositions for the oboe in the 18th century, which has been collected and published as a book by Bruce Haynes. Several years ago, this data has been made available on music for oboe using a simple Perl application by Peter Wuttke.

Since then, a lot of musicians all over the world contributed to this list, so that Peter and I decided to completely rewrite the application using Ruby on Rails. Well, actually I wrote the application while Peter checked lots and lots of libraries all over Europe to find new works or to validate the information given by others.

Needless to say, there are still a lot of things to do until the final version will go live.