For the New Year, according to old custom

Approaching the end of the year, it seems fitting to call your attention to a musical new year’s greeting from over two centuries ago. The precious collection of the Berlin Sing-Akademie (D-Bsa), which had gone missing during World War II, was rediscovered in 1999 by Christoph Wolff (later also president...

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More Italian Manuscripts Published from the ICCU Dataset

As early as September 2021 we published source descriptions RISM had taken over from the Italian union catalog maintained by ICCU. For details, see our report “ICCU and RISM: An Immense Number of Records”. This time we are happy to report on the publication of more than 16,000 records representing...

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Autumn 2023 Update to RISM Online

We are pleased to announce a significant new update to the RISM Online service, bringing several useful and oft-requested features to our users. Perhaps the biggest change is that our users will now see results from the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music integrated in their search results. This enhances...

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In memoriam Gertraut Haberkamp (29 January 1937 – 5 November 2023)

On the same day as Dr. Harald Heckmann, long-time president of RISM, Dr. Gertraut Haberkamp, who stood for RISM’s work like few others and was also a leading authority on the sources of the Viennese Classics, passed away in Munich. Gertraut Haberkamp was born in Bochum, the middle of five...

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The Cantata of the Last Things of Man by Ladislav Vycpálek

The following guest post is by Pavel Kordík (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), National Library Prague): Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of its Music Department (1923–2023), the National Library of the Czech Republic exhibits a printed edition of an important work by its founder, composer Ladislav Vycpálek...

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