Animal of the Year 2022: Donkey

As in previous years, various organizations have made selections for a plant or animal “of the year” for 2022. The German environmental organization NABU has a good overview. Apart from this list, the non-profit organization Bündnis Mensch & Tier has picked the donkey as the domestic animal of the year....

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Antoine Reicha Rediscovered

We have received the following from Jana Franková and François-Pierre Goy: The works of the long undeservedly forgotten French composer of Bohemian origin, Antoine Reicha (1770–1836, also known as Anton Reicha and Antonín Rejcha), have aroused renewed interest in the past decade. To celebrate his 250th birthday, the Moravian Library...

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RISM Online launched at the IAML congress in Prague

We are pleased to announce the public launch of RISM Online, a new service designed by our colleagues at the RISM Digital Center. This search tool is intended to complement the RISM Catalog that our users have known for many years, and provide them with alternative ways and means of...

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The Thematic Catalogue of the Music Collection of P. Barnabas Weiss

We have received the following from Zuzana Petrášková and Eliška Šedivá (National Library of the Czech Republic): The latest thematic catalogue in the series “Catalogus artis musicae in Bohemia et Moravia cultae” published to date is dedicated to a collection of music established during the course of the 19th century...

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RISM at the 2022 IAML Congress in Prague

This year’s annual IAML Congress will take place in Prague from 24–29 July, an event we look forward to every year—and this year even more so, after two years of postponements due to the coronavirus pandemic. RISM has a full week of events planned, capping off with a special RISM...

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