RISM at the 2026 IAML Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece

This year’s annual congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please look at the IAML Thessaloniki page on our website for the RISM events during the week: a RISM session, meetings of the Coordinating Committee, Commission Mixte, and RISM...

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Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Carl Maria von Weber’s death

Carl Maria von Weber died on 5 June 1826, at the age of 40 in London, where he had premiered his final opera, Oberon, König der Elfen, at the Haymarket Theatre just a few months earlier. The original English title was actually Oberon, or the Elf King’s Oath, and librettist...

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Private collections and libraries - Part 3

In the final part of our news series on private collections and libraries, we would like to call your attention to a new feature in the search for private collections. When you search among the institutions on RISM Online, you can select the “Private collection” option in the “Type of...

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The month of May in music

“In the beautiful month of May” – thus goes the first line of a well-known poem by Heinrich Heine, which Robert Schumann set to music to open his song cycle “Dichterliebe.” This Lied is arguably one of the best known of its kind and would certainly rank among the most...

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The “Bußpsalmencodex” of Albrecht V exhibited in Munich on 20 and 21 May

  It is too large to be considered a typical devotional book. Too precious to be used in church services. Too sophisticated in its illustrations to serve merely as a representative work, and too unsystematic in its presentation of knowledge to meet the standards of an encyclopaedia. (Andrea Gottdang in...

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