Leopold Mozart‘s Violin Tutor (Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule [= “Essay on a well-founded instruction for the violin”], Augsburg 1756) is one of the most important sources concerning the aesthetics of violin playing in the 18th century. A critical digital edition, prepared within the Digital Mozart Edition (DME) at the International Mozarteum Foundation (Salzburg), has been freely accessible online since 14 November 2019; see <https://dme.mozarteum.at/digital-editions/violinschule>. At present, the digital edition includes the first edition of 1756 only; further early releases (1769, 1787) and translations will follow. The editorial concept encompasses features like interactive searchability, synopses of various edited texts and the integration of facsimiles. The article describes how the encoding of the source material accomplishes these objectives and how the digital edition is presented online. The pathway from the textual sources to the online presentation is discussed considering the relations of the sources with each other, their intratextual structure as well as their data types and formats.

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